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Helper ICOUNTA function is counting blank cells as well
that's what is looks like, and only reason you need to do that because you are using COUNTA or similar function which doesn't count BLANK otherwise you can always put condition in your measure to check for whitespace and blank() but replace can be more elegant solution.
Helper IDoes that mean if I enter data manually in PBI Desktop, blank cells are rendered as white spaces, which I will have to replace to null?
Super Userthat's what is looks like, and only reason you need to do that because you are using COUNTA or similar function which doesn't count BLANK otherwise you can always put condition in your measure to check for whitespace and blank() but replace can be more elegant solution.
- KenPuls
Helper II
So... personally I usually pull data from external data sources. This is one of those areas that is kind of frustrating, as PowerBI seems to read those empty cells and places blanks instead of null values. The only way I know of to fix this is to replace <nothing> with null on the column to correct the default behaviour.
- Nathaniel_C
Community Champion
Hi chandakaushik ,
You may want to ask KenPuls . He wrote an amazing book about Power Query. M Is for (Data) Monkey.
