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Use automate to find keywords in Excel and enter new data

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We receive Excel data sets every day which have hundreds of lines of raw text, we need to quickly search the Excel sheet for several keywords and build a couple of new columns in that spreadsheet and enter a relative new value.


E.g. if the text were to contain say the following key words: No commitment, Safety, Threat; Then we would like to 3 new columns added showing No Commitment - Safety - Threat.


We can then use that spreadsheet to filter those logs we don't need to review and those which we do.

 

We would also like to search a particular column which holds post codes, and to add a new column which will add the correct District; for any district outside our borders, we want to identify this, so they would get classed as 'outside' - 'our district' or 'unknown'.

 

This data comes in everyday via excel and its too time consuming to just do conditional sorting, and I want to build this into a Power BI document with the objective to give the Officer an overview of what is coming in and therefore manage their time better - not just quantify the raw data for reporting.

 

The objective is to over-wright the data each day (its a manual import) so this filtering should ideally run automatically.

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