Excel PowerQuery: How to unpivot or transpose a huge table into a readable format for analysis

Question

I have this table that looks similar to this:

And I want to transform it so that it looks like this:

The idea is to unpivot( or transpose) the tabl

Answer 1

Before loading into PowerQuery, concatenate the headers to the empty row after [Programe Name] using a delimiter (space). You can use the TEXTJOIN function to do this if you use office365. The result looks something like this (I did not copy all your data):

Import this range into PowerQuery and perform the following steps (Do not check the my table has headers checkbox)

1. Remove top 2 rows (Home tab > Remove Rows)
2. Use first row as headers (Home tab > Use First Row as Headers)
3. Select the first column
4. Unpivot other columns (dropdown menu unpivot columns on Transform Tab)
5. Split the [Attribute] column by delimiter (space) (Home tab > Split Column)
6. Change column names
7. Move City column to the left (rightclick column > move > left)

The script looks like this:

let
    Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="table"]}[Content],
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type any}, {"Column3", type any}, {"Column4", type any}, {"Column5", type any}, {"Column6", type any}, {"Column7", type any}, {"Column8", type any}, {"Column9", type any}}),
    #"Removed Top Rows" = Table.Skip(#"Changed Type",2),
    #"Promoted Headers" = Table.PromoteHeaders(#"Removed Top Rows", [PromoteAllScalars=true]),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Promoted Headers",{{"Program Name", type text}, {"NY Budget", Int64.Type}, {"NY Revenue", Int64.Type}, {"NY Cost", Int64.Type}, {"NY Margin", Int64.Type}, {"LA Budget", Int64.Type}, {"LA Revenue", Int64.Type}, {"LA Cost", Int64.Type}, {"LA Margin", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(#"Changed Type1", {"Program Name"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", "Attribute", Splitter.SplitTextByDelimiter(" ", QuoteStyle.Csv), {"Attribute.1", "Attribute.2"}),
    #"Changed Type2" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Attribute.1", type text}, {"Attribute.2", type text}}),
    #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type2",{{"Attribute.1", "City"}, {"Attribute.2", "Description"}}),
    #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{"City", "Program Name", "Description", "Value"})
in
    #"Reordered Columns"

And this is the result (in the Power Query Editor)