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wolbertkj
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Data Type Error

Hello,

 

I recently had data on an excel sheet that was text. In Power Bi, changed that text to equal a certain number (so green=1, yellow=3, and red=5). Because I was having so many issues with this and the guage visual which I downloaded, I switched the excel sheet back to being numbers rather than words. When refreshing in Power Bi, I now get and error in those columns. I switch the data type back to whole number, but the error remains.

 

Can anyone help with this?

 

Thanks!

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v-chuncz-msft
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@wolbertkj,

 

You may check steps in The Advanced Editor.

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v-chuncz-msft
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Community Support

@wolbertkj,

 

You may check steps in The Advanced Editor.

Community Support Team _ Sam Zha
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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