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I have a table with a mix of text and decimal numbers that represent unique ID's. Eg: 1.001, 1.002, P.23 etc. I format these to text in the source (Excel) before importing into Power BI.
The query however reads the following:
Huh?! Not very useful. Any suggestions would be grand.
Paul
what you see data type of this column? Can you change it to "Text" to see if that makes a difference, I believe by default it is ABC/123.
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@Eric_Zhang wrote:
@palunel wrote:
The problem actually manifests iteelf when I change the type to text! It must be text.Is it possible to share the source excel in your case for testing purpose?
I can. How do you want me to get it to you?
@palunel wrote:
@Eric_Zhang wrote:
@palunel wrote:
The problem actually manifests iteelf when I change the type to text! It must be text.Is it possible to share the source excel in your case for testing purpose?
I can. How do you want me to get it to you?
You can upload it to a network drive, such as Onedrive or Google drive and send the link in a private message if you don't like it being public.
Thanks for sharing the excel. I can reproduce the same issue. I'll escalate this to the product team and would post back if I get any update.
As a workaround, you can try to round those values and change them to text.
@Eric_Zhang wrote:Thanks for sharing the excel. I can reproduce the same issue. I'll escalate this to the product team and would post back if I get any update.
As a workaround, you can try to round those values and change them to text.
Thanks, it kind of works problem is that text values that should be "1.010" ends up as "1.01". I can sort of fix in Excel before importing into PowerBi so will continue with that until the fix is there.
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