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Jase71ds
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Advocate I

Need to Force a Data Column to Make Numbers into Text in the Form of XX.XX

Hoping for some Power Query assistance.

I have a column of reference data that I want to treat as Text, and have it in the form of xx.xx

In Excel - I would simply highlight the column, Format/Custom, and type in "00.00" to get my desired outcome.

I've spent an hour in PQ and can't make this work. Can anyone offer some guidance?

Much appreciated!

Jase.

Column as shown in Power QueryDesired (text) outcome
1.2101.21
1.2201.22
1.301.30
10.110.10
12.212.20
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Jase71ds
Advocate I
Advocate I

Thanks for this. I struggled with it (I'm not the brightest) but to no avail. However, your answer prompted me to success. It's certainly not elegant, but here's what I did...

Split the column at the "." delimeter.

Renamed the two new columns, "Half_1" and "Half_2"

Created 2 custom columns:

  • = Text.PadStart( [Half_1], 2 )
  • = Text.PadEnd( [Half_2], 2 )

This put a space any time there was not 2 digits

Then I went and did a Find/Replace " " with "0"

Then concatenated the two columns: = [Half_1] & "." & [Half_2]

Long way to do it, but it worked!

Thanks to all, your post prompted me in a successful direction!

Jase.

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watkinnc
Super User
Super User

Here you go, this works.

 

let
Source = NameOfYourTable,
#"Added Prefix" = Table.TransformColumns(Source, {{"Column as shown in Power Query", each if Text.StartsWith(_, "1.") then ("0" & _) else _, type text}}),
#"Added Suffix" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Added Prefix", {{"Column as shown in Power Query", each if Text.Length(_) <> 5 then _ & "0" else _, type text}})
in
#"Added Suffix"

 

Column as shown in Power QueryDesired (text) outcome

01.2101.21
01.2201.22
01.3001.30
10.1010.10
12.2012.20

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Jase71ds
Advocate I
Advocate I

Thanks for this. I struggled with it (I'm not the brightest) but to no avail. However, your answer prompted me to success. It's certainly not elegant, but here's what I did...

Split the column at the "." delimeter.

Renamed the two new columns, "Half_1" and "Half_2"

Created 2 custom columns:

  • = Text.PadStart( [Half_1], 2 )
  • = Text.PadEnd( [Half_2], 2 )

This put a space any time there was not 2 digits

Then I went and did a Find/Replace " " with "0"

Then concatenated the two columns: = [Half_1] & "." & [Half_2]

Long way to do it, but it worked!

Thanks to all, your post prompted me in a successful direction!

Jase.

Anonymous
Not applicable

this is a workaround

= Table.AddColumn(Origine, "format", each let part=Text.Split([Column as shown in Power Query],".") in Text.PadStart(part{0},2,"0")&"."&Text.PadEnd(part{1},2,"0"))

 

perphs the Text.Format function could accomplish this task better, but I dont have the documentation of that function

Pragati11
Super User
Super User

Hi @Jase71ds ,

 

What you can do is go to Query Editor in Power BI. Select the column in your table:

Pragati11_0-1606147475960.png

 

In the top ribbon select TRANSFORM --> Data Type --> TEXT:

Pragati11_1-1606147554132.png

 

This will chnage the data-type of your column.

 

Thanks,

Pragati

 

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Thanks but I've already tried that. Doesn't produce desired results 😞

Anonymous
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nel mio pc il risultato è questo.

Non è quello che cercavi?

 

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