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pierre415
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Prevent Scientific Notation

I'm dealing with some ID numbers that show up fine in Excel but get converted to Scientific Notation whenever I import them in PBI, which also changes the numbers for some reason. Is there any way to prevent scientific notation? I've tried changing the column format to text but it doesn't make a difference. 

 

Thanks,

Pierre 

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Just started working actually, I added a * to the column in excel and then removed it in PBI!

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bgale1945
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I have a text file with chess moves like 1.e3 which keep getting changed to scientific notation.

 

I changed all the e's in my text file to é (e acute) and on importing into excel it left them alone.

 

Having e acute instead of e is a small pice to pay!

bgale1945
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I have a text file with chess moves such as 1.e3 which kept getting changed to scientific notation.

 

I changed all the e's in my file to é (e acute) and on importing to excel it left them alone!

I don't care if 1.e3 looks like 1.é3

bgale1945
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I stopped excel changing things like 1.e3 by changing all the e's in my input text file to é (e acute). It worked!

I don't really care if 1.e3 shows as 1.é3

Greg_Deckler
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I'd like to play around with that, how big does the number have to be in Excel?


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Just started working actually, I added a * to the column in excel and then removed it in PBI!

@pierre415,

 

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We have a similar problem. Some zeros in Tables and Matrices appear with scientific notation, dispite being set to Integer.

We solved it by rounding to two decimals with ROUND([measure], 2), and then changing the format to 'Whole number' in the Modelling tab.

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