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Error converting percentages
- Anonymous5 years ago
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
Sab
Try to right-click on the column, Change Type, and select Percentage.
If this doesn't solve your problem, can you share the M code or explain how the column was built? Check source data as well
- Sab5 years ago
Helper V
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