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achristopherson
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How to format Phone Numbers?

‎03-20-2018 08:11 AM

What is the recommended way to format phone numbers? Power BI keeps trying to treat them as decimals or whole numbers. Currently, the numbers are in a string format with no spacing or hyphens. 

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v-piga-msft
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‎03-21-2018 02:35 AM

Hi @achristopherson,

 

Two approaches could format the phone number.

 

Assuming that your Phonen umber is "111222333", you want to have the format of "111-222-3333". You could refer to the ways below.

 

1. In Power Query, split that one column into 3 and add a new custom column.

 

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Note: you need to change the Phonenumber.1,Phonenumber.2 and Phonenumber.2.2 to text type, then add the custom column.

 

2. With Dax expression, change that column1 to  decimal type and use FORMAT(TABLE[PHONENO],"###-###-####")

 

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Hope it can help you!

 

Best regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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v-piga-msft
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‎03-21-2018 02:35 AM

Hi @achristopherson,

 

Two approaches could format the phone number.

 

Assuming that your Phonen umber is "111222333", you want to have the format of "111-222-3333". You could refer to the ways below.

 

1. In Power Query, split that one column into 3 and add a new custom column.

 

Untitled1.png

 

Note: you need to change the Phonenumber.1,Phonenumber.2 and Phonenumber.2.2 to text type, then add the custom column.

 

2. With Dax expression, change that column1 to  decimal type and use FORMAT(TABLE[PHONENO],"###-###-####")

 

Capture.PNG

 

Hope it can help you!

 

Best regards,

Cherry

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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achristopherson
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In response to v-piga-msft

‎06-19-2018 06:12 AM

Great, thank you for your help!

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