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mitiefjn
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Export to excel date always includes time

Using PBI Desktop, I have a report with several date columns, however, even though I set the Data Type to Date (without time) and the Format to my desired Date setting, when I import the CSV file into Excel the dates always appear with a time included. 

 

Is there a genuine way or format to stop this ?

 

Thanks and regards

Fred

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v-yuezhe-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@mitiefjn,

There are two methods for you.

1. Change the data type of the date column to Short Date in Excel file.
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2. Create a calculated column in Power BI Desktop using DAX below, then export visual to csv.

Date= FORMAT(Table1[DateCol],"mm/dd/yyyy")

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Regards,
Lydia

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jthomson
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi,

 

Running across this same bug right now, I don't suppose anyone's found a simpler way to have a date field actually be a date field on export other than using the clunky method of making a bunch of calculated columns?

v-yuezhe-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@mitiefjn,

There are two methods for you.

1. Change the data type of the date column to Short Date in Excel file.
1.PNG

2. Create a calculated column in Power BI Desktop using DAX below, then export visual to csv.

Date= FORMAT(Table1[DateCol],"mm/dd/yyyy")

1.PNG

Regards,
Lydia

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

Is there a way to represent these values in the format "d mmm yyyy"? It seems not, because the date is turning to text this way. Are there some workarounds?

OK but what if you're in direct query mode? I'm sorry, but this is not a good solution. If we set the format in Power BI, it's not unreasonable to expect that the format would also be applied to the export.

Hi Lydia,

 

Thanks for that, yes, the Excel option is what I've already used, but wondered if there was a PBI setting I was missing. 

 

I'm new to PBI, so, given that I'm extracting 6 different MSProject date fields (columns), I presume I'd need to define 6 different date entries, one for each, for the PBI solution ?

 

If that is so, I'll stick with the Excel option as it's quicker, just a shame that PBI doesn't honour the format settings when exporting.

 

Regards

Fred

@mitiefjn,

Yes. You would need to create 6 columns to convert the date columns to text format.

Regards,
Lydia

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

Thanks Lydia, in that case I'll stick to the Excel method until/if the export process is tidied up

 

Regards

Fred

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