Cannot change text to number in Power Query Editor

[quyenduong]

Hi there, 

I have several columns (all columns with Est & Year in the header) that include null value and number like this 190,513. Power BI automatically recognizes this column as Text but not Number. Now, I must change the data type from Text to Whole Number. Here is what I did:

• In the Power Query Editor: Transform > Choose the column > Change Data Type from text to whole number 

Then the whole column becomes Error (screenshot below is example of one column, it will be similar when i apply the same for the other columns).

I read some questions in the platform but still cannot solve this problem. Thank you so much for answering. 

Best regards, 

[JasminParis]

Bonjour,

J'ai rencontré le même souci, avez-vous trouvé la solution, SVP?

[amitchandak]

@quyenduong , Can you please click error and share that

[quyenduong]

Hi @amitchandak , I found out that the data containing numbers always have "comma" between numbers, therefore, it fails to convert to Whole number.

I saw that there is a function to replace value "," to nothing but I wonder if i can apply this for all columns containing number so I dont have to do it one by one. 

Thank you

[v-xiaotang]

Hi @quyenduong 

Thanks for reaching out to us.

Usually a number column is automatically recognized as a number column, unless the number contains some spaces, then the column will be recognized as text type. Could you share a sample file for us to check? thanks

Best Regards,

Community Support Team _Tang

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