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Anonymous
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3 years ago
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PowerBI Dropping 0's from US zip codes while loading data

When importing a file with zip codes, PowerBI automatically drops all the leading 0's on the zip codes which then causes them to map incorrectly. Is there any way to prevent it from doing this when i...
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    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    Turn off automatic data type detection.

    When you turn off this option, if your data is imported into Power BI Desktop, data will all be displayed as text data type.

                                                                                                                                                             

    Best Regards,

    Stephen Tao

     

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eliasayyy
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3 years ago

go to power query , in the step change type , you will see that the column "ZIP" is not whole number but a text format

as you see 
i made a sample dataset


when it loads , it automatically detects it as whoel number integer

 

just press on 123 and then choose text

result

 

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Anonymous
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3 years ago

For some reason, it's dropping the 0's even before it Prmotes Headers - I can't figure out a way to get it to change to Text before the data shows up.