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Anonymous
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Convert negative revenue in a column to positive

Hi all 🙂 New user to Power BI so trying to get my head around it. 

 

My aim is to get power bi to look up look through the data I have in column 2 - and replace all negative figures with positive. Any advice would be greatly appreicated!

 

My data looks something like this:

 

Acct Type$
Fees paid10
Pens-20
Staples -5
Refunded items50
paper-10
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Idrissshatila
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Hello @Anonymous ,

 

you go into Power query and click on the column you need to fix the signs and then under transform => scientific = > Absolute value

 

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mlsx4
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

In DAX you can use the formula ABS (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/abs-function-dax)

Idrissshatila
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Hello @Anonymous ,

 

you go into Power query and click on the column you need to fix the signs and then under transform => scientific = > Absolute value

 

Idrissshatila_0-1693378996809.png

 

Idrissshatila_1-1693379012905.png

 

 

If I answered your question, please mark my post as solution, Appreciate your Kudos 👍

Follow me on Linkedin
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Anonymous
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Thank you!

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