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Can't sort Months
I'm having a lot of trouble to just order the months of the char below, chronolagicaly.
I searched on many topics on the internet but I simply don't know how to apply any of them on my case. I can't change my month column to "Date" and also can't create a measure to number it from 1 to 12.
Thanks for anyone who can help
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smearpMicrosoft Employee
Hello Eric-
Super common issue! Since the month names are text, Power BI assumes that you want to sort them alphabetically.
You need to create an additional MonthNumber column (Creating a new conditional column in Power Query is probably where I'd do it) that basically says:
- If Month = Jan, then 1
- If Month = Feb, then 2
- If Month = Mar, then 3
- etc...
Then... in your model, select the month column, choose "Sort by column", and then choose the new MonthNumber column.