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Error converting percentages
Hello
as you see in the screeshot below, when I load these percentage data, the negative ones stay as Text and I don't know why!!! I cannot convert them to number. There is no Chnage Type step in the query and I disabled automatic detection of data types..
Thank you!
Your column is not converted to a number type, it's still type any. As long as you have the header row in your data instead of promoting them to headers. Ideally you'd format the Excel data as a table, and then no work would even be necessary, except to click the Get Data From Table/Range button.
Once you Promote those headers, you can probably use:
Fixed = Table.TransformColumns(PriorStep, {{"Premium % Change", Number.FromText}})
--Nate
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Your column is not converted to a number type, it's still type any. As long as you have the header row in your data instead of promoting them to headers. Ideally you'd format the Excel data as a table, and then no work would even be necessary, except to click the Get Data From Table/Range button.
Once you Promote those headers, you can probably use:
Fixed = Table.TransformColumns(PriorStep, {{"Premium % Change", Number.FromText}})
--Nate
Not many steps at all! It just read the excel, navigate to the sheets and then converts positive percentages correctly, but it does not the negative ones!!!
I tried to change the '-' and the '%' with regular characters but nothing happened!
So the correct change type step (which I don't know where is executed!!!), for the first negative value of -0.3% should have been converted to -0.003
