Combine information from one table to another? (Power query or formulas?)

danhendo888

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
So I am wanting to add the information from the below table (Table1):

InvoicePaid
Tesla1Yes
Tesla2Yes


to the table below (Table2):

InvoiceInvoice DateDue DateAmountPaid
Tesla101-Jan-2430-Jan-241000
Tesla301-Jan-2430-Jan-24500Yes


to arrive at the below output (TableOutput):
InvoiceInvoice DateDue DateAmountPaid
Tesla101-Jan-2430-Jan-241000Yes
Tesla301-Jan-2430-Jan-24500Yes
Tesla2Yes


The orange formatting is just to provide a visual of the information from Table1 that is being added to Table2.
The order of the invoices as they appear in TableOutput is not important.
Table1 shows that invoice number Tesla1 is paid. Since Tesla1 can be found on Table2, we just need to update the Paid column with "Yes".
Table1 shows an invoice number Tesla2 as being paid. But Tesla2 is not found in Table2. And so we want to add the invoice number Telsa2 into Table2 and also update the Paid column with "Yes"

I tried to merge them in PQ but the two tables just horizontally stack next to each other and I can't get the invoice numbers/Paid columns to appear in their respective columns.

Also, I'm not sure if this is best done by PQ or formulas? Feels like it is harder than it looks. Would appreciate your recommendations.
 

Excel Facts

Why does 9 mean SUM in SUBTOTAL?
It is because Sum is the 9th alphabetically in Average, Count, CountA, Max, Min, Product, StDev.S, StDev.P, Sum, VAR.S, VAR.P.
Sorry, I figured it out. I just did Grouped by for the invoice column and for the other columns, chose Max.
 
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