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Merging single select fields

  • June 19, 2026
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saresum
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Hello! 


I am importing messy data entered over many years in many different formats. I am hoping there is an easy way to merge similar single select fields in one.

For instance, in the screenshot below there are 50+ ways that people have entered this info over the years, but I would like to consolidate those into under 10 categories. So I would want to take the “Large” single select option and then pull in the various fields such as: “lg” “Lg” “large shade” “large?” etc.

Hoping there is a simpler way to do this because there’s a large volume of records.

Thank you for any thoughts!

 

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saresum
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  • June 19, 2026

I thought on this a little more and I guess I could just rename all of the single select options and then sort them to consolidate. That’s a good option if there’s not an even easier way!


TheTimeSavingCo
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Hm, what if you converted it to a Linked Field to a new table, cleaned up the data there, and then went back to the original table and converted it back into a Single Select Field?

In the gif below I duplicated the field first but that’s really just so we can compare the end product