change format from text to number

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a set of columns with numbers that I noticed that PBI was treating as text. When going to modeling to convert there format to decimal numbers or any kind of Numbers format, it removes any decimal points in the numbers. For instance if I have a (2,28) in one cell, when converting its format to Numbers, the number becomes (228). how can I convert the number format from text to numbers without removing the decimal points?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

You can try the steps below.

Open Power Query Editor, remove any step in Query Settings that change your current Text Format into Number first.

Then, select the orignial text column, right click to choose Change Type -> Using locale...

Then choose Data type and your Locale

[Anonymous]

Exactly, works fine now thanks. 🙂

[v-jiascu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

You should set a proper format for the original data. Please refer to the snapshot below. 

Best Regards,
Dale

[Anonymous]

It depends on your settings. 

You could use PowerQuery to transform these values from texts to numbers. 

Idk what values you have, but try replacing the text-values from . to , (dot to comma) or the other way around. 

Then try the transformation to decimals again.

Good luck 🙂