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achristopherson
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8 years ago
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How to format Phone Numbers?

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. 
  • v-piga-msft's avatar
    8 years ago

    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.

     

     

    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],"###-###-####")

     

     

    Hope it can help you!

     

    Best regards,

    Cherry