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bourne2000
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Converting text column into decimals?

Hi I am unable to convert the below text columns into decimal

 

bourne2000_0-1630100882245.png

 

Decimals points are replacing, when I tried to convert using changed type into decimal in power query. I want to show the decimal point in my report. Also, I changed the regional settings into United States .

 

bourne2000_1-1630100972097.png

 

Any suggestions?

 

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sevenhills
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Super User

 

 I tried with your few rows of sample data, converting as currency and it worked fine.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQ0UIrViVYyM9azNAKzTAzM9SwswExDMyNLPUtLiAJTpdhYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Currency.Type}})
in
    #"Changed Type"

 

I am not recommending but to understand the problem, Can you try doing 

     data type change to decimal in Power Query? 

#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type number}})

sevenhills_0-1630107632878.png

 

     Format in Data tab as decimal with two points?

    

sevenhills_1-1630107679316.png

 

See if this shows as you wanted. 

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sevenhills
Super User
Super User

 

 I tried with your few rows of sample data, converting as currency and it worked fine.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQ0UIrViVYyM9azNAKzTAzM9SwswExDMyNLPUtLiAJTpdhYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", Currency.Type}})
in
    #"Changed Type"

 

I am not recommending but to understand the problem, Can you try doing 

     data type change to decimal in Power Query? 

#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type number}})

sevenhills_0-1630107632878.png

 

     Format in Data tab as decimal with two points?

    

sevenhills_1-1630107679316.png

 

See if this shows as you wanted. 

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