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How to Convert Year to Date

Dear experts,
I my data, U have year column, but is not as date formate like the column below, How I can convert this column to date to allow to to use time intelligence functions to calculate Year over Year (Y0Y). 

Year
2020
2021
2020
2019
2019
2020
2020
2021
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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try:

Column = DATE([Year],1,1)


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Greg_Deckler
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@Anonymous Try:

Column = DATE([Year],1,1)


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Shahfaisal
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You should be able to change it to date in Power Query. See this for screen shot and steps - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Converting-text-year-to-date-in-Power-Query/td-p/153128...

 

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