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    List .Combine, versus Expand

    Hi,
    If I needed to get at the values in a list of lists, I've used either List.Combine or Union, but have just found

    Table.ExpandColumnList, my question is are there any advanctages that anyone knows of for using one over the other?

    Combine is a lot easier,

    I've attached workbook showing both and how I've used them

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    Re: List .Combine, versus Expand

    I'd imagine that the second one is more inefficient as you are duplicating every row of the table for each list item, then extracting just the column you want. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work.
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    Re: List .Combine, versus Expand

    Well that was my thinking, it's just that its used if you use the expand to new rows on the drop down, so thought it might have some
    advantage, all I can think is that it says what it acutully does, and opposed to union or combine, which if you only have one list you want to get at
    doesn't seem right.

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