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Khoward1607
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Function not active in formula bar

Hello everyone,

I am fairly new to power BI and I'm sure that the following question is a rookie mistake. Im currently working with Power Bi desktop. My issue is I'm trying to add a calculated column using the function EOMONTH to calculate the last date in the month. The problem is that the function is not being recognized in the formula bar. I also tried it with an IF function, but it's like it's just viewing the function as text rather than a function if that makes any sense?..  I'm not sure if I deselected something to cause the formula bar to not recognize the functions as functions and instead as text. I was able to successfully write an IF function shortly before I started experiencing this issue. I would greatly appreciate some insight on this. Thank you. 

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amitchandak
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@Khoward1607 , You should be able to create a column like

 

End of month = eomonth([Date],0)

 

May sure ut column not measure

 

You can refer this video for beginners - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN8AO3_vmlY

 

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Thank you for your help. I saved the video you referred me to.  I found that once I completely exited power BI and brought my report backup I was able to type functions once again not sure if it was just a bug?

 

 Again thank you so much for your time I appreciate your advice.

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