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The Power BI conditional formatting is one of the most confusing interfaces, you're not alone!
The 33 percent that you're looking at, actually means bottom third of your data, so looking at your screenshot, you have percentages greater than 1000%. If you're wanting 33% as your threshold, you need to set 0.33 Number instead of 33 Percent. You'll need to change that for all the values.
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The Power BI conditional formatting is one of the most confusing interfaces, you're not alone!
The 33 percent that you're looking at, actually means bottom third of your data, so looking at your screenshot, you have percentages greater than 1000%. If you're wanting 33% as your threshold, you need to set 0.33 Number instead of 33 Percent. You'll need to change that for all the values.
Hope that helps!
Copying DAX from this post? Click here for a hack to quickly replace it with your own table names
Has this post solved your problem? Please Accept as Solution so that others can find it quickly and to let the community know your problem has been solved.
If you found this post helpful, please give Kudos C
I work as a Microsoft trainer and consultant, specialising in Power BI and Power Query.
www.excelwithallison.com
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