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Syndicate_Admin
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Error changing data type obtained from excel

Good.

I have an Excel with four records and one of the columns is in currency format, Power Query detects it as text format, when I try to transform it to integer with decimal or currency it gives me error, how can I solve it or what fails?, I put the captures.

Original Excel in currency format

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After importing it into Power Query

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ERROR. When modifying the data type

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Greetings

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Syndicate_Admin
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Administrator

or you can remove the euro symbol in power Query and then change the data type.

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Syndicate_Admin
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or you can remove the euro symbol in power Query and then change the data type.

ok works. Thank you.

amitchandak
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Super User

@Syndicate_Admin , I think imported data is coming as text, not as a number. Remove format on excel and then import.

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Good, I have tried to remove formats or put it in a thousand ways and it always gave me error, I had to create a new clean column and put the data, so it works for me.

Thank you.

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