Cannot merge because column has both text and numbers

danhendo888

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows

I've brought in two tables into power query:
- AccountNumber (column has text and numbers. Some of the numbers (e.g rows 2 - 6) are formatted as text (i.e. it has the green ribbon in the cell and is aligned to the left))
- LookupTable

The AccountNumber table has many columns but I've reduced it to one column for this question.
I'm trying to use the LookupTable and do a lookup on the account number to achive the output table.

I tried merge but get an error because the AccountNumber column has both text and numbers.

Is there a way that I can achieve the output table where some columns have both text and numbers involved?
 

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The LookupTable can be either of the below, whichever is easier to achieve the output table.

AccountActivity
77401405LANDTRANS


AccountActivity
77401405LANDTRANS
EXPENSE_INP


The row with text doesn't really need to be either in the lookup table. But there will be text in the AccountNumber table.
 
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Assuming the numeric values in the lookup table are actual numbers, you could add a calculated column to the main table using something like:

Power Query:
=try Number.From([Account]) otherwise [Account]

to convert any numeric data into an actual number, then merge on that new column.
 
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