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jdubs
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Formatting a whole number column as a percentage adds two zeroes

I have a whole number column that I want to display as a percentage. When I change the Formatting type to percentage it adds 2 zeroes and 2 decimal places e.g. 80 --> 8000.00%, 113 --> 11300.00%, etc.

 

It doesn't seem like you can reduce the decimal places below zero so this is very strange behavior. 

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AllisonKennedy
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if you want 10% your value needs to be stored as 0.1. You could use the Transform > Standard > Divide in Power Query to convert the whole number to decimal, then format as percent

 


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v-angzheng-msft
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 Hi, @jdubs 

According to your description, you only need to reformat the target column to get the desired result.

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Result:

v-angzheng-msft_1-1619173505652.jpeg

 

Is this the result you want? Hope this is useful to you

Please feel free to let me know If you have further questions

 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Zeon Zheng
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AllisonKennedy
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if you want 10% your value needs to be stored as 0.1. You could use the Transform > Standard > Divide in Power Query to convert the whole number to decimal, then format as percent

 


Please @mention me in your reply if you want a response.

Copying DAX from this post? Click here for a hack to quickly replace it with your own table names

Has this post solved your problem? Please Accept as Solution so that others can find it quickly and to let the community know your problem has been solved.
If you found this post helpful, please give Kudos C

I work as a Microsoft trainer and consultant, specialising in Power BI and Power Query.
www.excelwithallison.com

Super helpful find today. Thank you!

That's perfect Allison. Thank you!

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