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Display Unit Formatting
Hello all,
I am wondering if it is possible to correct the current formatting of display units in Power BI. Currently, I have a report which displays values both in the millions and in the billions, and the Display Units are set to auto on both cards and a bar chart. However, the unit abbreviations displayed are :
bn = billions
M = millions
The client would prefer to see a 'B' used to represent billions
Is there any way to update these display units?
Thanks!
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Chiming in from December 2019, this is a necessary fix.
@v-shex-msft is there a planned fix for this?
Format the data in the formatting tab
To clarify, what I need to format is the display unit label of 'bn' , not my measure or column. I would like to indicate billions by using a capital 'B' rather than 'bn'
Is there a way in the Modeling toolbar or any other way to edit this?
Hi ldittmann970,
Nope, current you can only use format function to change numeric unit.
BTW, even if you change the display format, the result is also transformed to text.Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
ldittmann970 did you ever figure out to edit this? The standard finance formatting is $M for thousands, $MM for millions, and $B for billions. I cannot figure out how to change the display units for visualizations.
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