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gordgord1
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9 months ago
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Help, Stuck with Text Column (How to display decimal as a percentage?)

Hello,  Dealing with people who mixes data types. Causing a hassle for me. Need to call in someone smarter than me.  Stuck using a text column. Most people want to see percentages in this format 7...
  • PhilipTreacy's avatar
    9 months ago

    Hi gordgord1 

     

    Download example PBIX file with the code below

     

    Do you need to keep the N/A ?

     

    Wouldn't getting rid of text and making the column numeric be more useful for further analysis and calculation?

     

    Use this to create the column

     

    Column = 
    
    SWITCH( TRUE(),
    
    [ColumnA (Text)] = "N/A", BLANK(),
    
    [ColumnA (Text)] = "", BLANK(),
    
    VALUE([ColumnA (Text)]
    ))

     

    Then format the column as Percentage

     

     

    Or if you want a measure

     

    Measure = 
    
    VAR _value = SELECTEDVALUE(Data[ColumnA (Text)])
    
    RETURN 
    
    SWITCH( TRUE(),
    
    _value = "N/A", BLANK(),
    
    _value = "", BLANK(),
    
    VALUE(_value)
    )

     

    Format the measure as a Percentage.

     

     

    If you want to keep the column as text then use this

     

    Column 2 = 
    
    SWITCH( TRUE(),
    
    IFERROR(VALUE([ColumnA (Text)]), TRUE()), [ColumnA (Text)],
    
    FORMAT(VALUE([ColumnA (Text)]), "0.00%")
    
    )

     

     

    Regards

     

    Phil