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Niels_T
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5 years ago
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How to change dot notation to comma

Hello,   There is a . that is being used as decimal. I would like to use the , instead. It seems to only appear in the tables. In my data I've already changed the type and there it does disp...
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    v-lionel-msft
    5 years ago

    Hi Niels_T ,

     

    My Power BI Desktop version: 2.90.782.0 64-bit (February 2021)

    My data source: Local excel file

    My test steps：

    Step1, Change my computer system setting: Control Panel\Region\Additional settings\Decimal symbol

     

    Step2, Restart and refresh my .pbix file in Power BI Desktop.

     

    My test result(You can see that I successfully changed the delimiter.).

    But the methods provided by other blogs are not the same as mine, you can refer to it.

    schoennie: Thousand Separator and Decimal Separator in Power BI Desktop, Chrome, IE & Edge

     

    Best regards,
    Lionel Chen

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amitchandak
Super User
5 years ago

Niels_T , For this you have to change the regional setting. Change region to country uses this number format.

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VdeJong
Frequent Visitor
2 years ago

If you change regional settings then also the words for the month will change. I live in the Netherlands but need to report in English there for the month should be english, however the decimals should be a comma instead of a dot. So in my opinion this is a software issue and should be done there.
In excel I can do it without problem, however in Power Bi it's probably not possible