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cathoms
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Mathematically transform values in a column in Power Query

I am (re)building a dataset and report from an Excel sheet that I download. There are columns that are supposed to be rates, i.e. number of new visits coded X/total number of new visits. Unfortunately, these are all formated as numbers rather than percentages. So, for example, where a code utilization rate is listed as 19.04, it should really be 19.04%, or 0.1904. See image:

 

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Is there a way I can transform these values to be correct, either within Power Query or through DAX? I don't want to do it in the source file because that will take some work and I am trying to set this up so that I can just add future files into the source folder to update it.

 

Note that I can't just make them data type: percentage because, using my previous example, 19.04 will become 1904% rather than 19.04%. This matters for some other calculations, conditional formating, and displaying the values correctly as percentages.

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Ashish_Mathur
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Hi,

The picture should say it all

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Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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Ashish_Mathur
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Super User

Hi,

The picture should say it all

Untitled.png


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

Perfect, thatnks!

You are welcome.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
parry2k
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Super User

@cathoms maybe add another column and divide the value by 100 and then remove old columns:

 

New Column = [Column]/100

 

you have to add new column for each column that need transformation.

 

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