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Anonymous
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Text field Reformat

I have a column of numbers with a maximum length of 6 characters but with smaller lengths as well as in the following:

123456

782

5678

I want to reformat these as text but with a high order 0 fill where the field is less than 6 characters long.  The result would then look like:

123456

000782

005678

I have been using a Dax formula as follows: 

EmpID as text = format(BLASTSRESPONSE[EmpID],"000000") but not getting the required result.  
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Anonymous
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Thank you Yelsherif.  It is working now.

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yelsherif
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Resolver IV

The formula is right if the numbers are in numeric format. So to make sure it is numeric, we can add the function VALUE as follows:

EmpID as text = format(VALUE(BLASTSRESPONSE[EmpID]),"000000")

and make sure the formula is in a calculated column, not a measure

Anonymous
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Thank you Yelsherif.  It is working now.

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