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I have a column named duration in which data is in the format hh:mm: ss
The data is displayed correctly in Excel but when I import the excel file in Power Bi, the format of the column changes to a date/time format, something like 12/31/1899 HH:MM: SS.
How do I get my data in the HH:MM:SS format in Power Bi? I need to calculate the average of that column.
Please help.
Note: I've tried changing the column in excel to General format and then changing the format to duration in Power BI, that gives me the format as DD:HH:MM:SS.
@Greg_Deckler can you please help me?
Hi @AbbasG , I have the data as below in in Excel,
And what I have in Power Bi is like
I want the data in the format HH:MM:SS.
@Shivrajvk I think you can use the FORMAT function here.
Additionally, you can also refer the following solution - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Extracting-only-minutes-and-seconds-from-a-date/m-p/2201488...
Hope it helps!
@AbbasG The Format function works by the output is in a text format. I want to calculate the average of the entire duration column. Is there any way to do that?
@Shivrajvk please share some sample data (after removing all the sensitive information), with desired out come.
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