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Hi.
So I am working with some financial data from a spreadsheet and I am facing an issue with data types.
For one column A - selecting number as data type works the way I expect it to whereas selecting percentage doesn't.
Data - 78.32 [type TEXT - Before auto-detection or manually setting the data type]
Decimal - 78.32 [Allows for AVERAGE aggregation which I need]
Percentage - 7832.00%
For another column B - selecting the percentage data type works but selecting decimal doesn't.
Data - 12.50 [type TEXT - Before auto-detection or manually setting the data type]
Decimal - 0.001250
Percentage - 12.50%
I feel the reason is Column A having numbers greater than 100. Is that the case?
How can I deal with this? Should I work with separate data types for two columns which basically have same type of data (percentages)
@someshwarrc this is weird, how is the number stored in excel? Is there any formatting applied in excel? If yes, can you remove the formatting in Excel and see how the numbers are stored in each column?
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