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Convert text with commas into value
Hi all, My database has some numerical fields that come in text and some of them have commas, by the time to convert the text to a value, the comma disappear and my number become "bigger". For e...
Oh, I guess I misunderstood. Then replace "," with "." instead of blank.
100,00 should be 100 and 99,85 should be 99,85 and not 9985 for example. The commas disappear at all
These are always tough because I really can't play with the regional language settings which I believe handle things like decimals and dates in different formats. Sounds like your's might be set to English perhaps? Seems like if you had the right regional settings that Power BI would recognize those commas as decimals and convert them correctly to numbers by just changine the type.