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Numeric Sorting of Alphanumeric
Is there a setting to sort alphanumerically? I know there's a sort by, but is there a setting on PowerBI Desktop to sort things numerically? This the default sorting on File Explorer and I'd like to replicate it.
I want this sorting:
1
D1
D2
D9
D10
D100
D200
D999
RandomText
Sausage
Not:
1
D1
D10
D100
D2
D200
D9
D999
RandomText
Sausage
HI carlom_iptech,
Text values can not use the numeric mode as the column sort order.
For your scenario, you can extract the number value part to create a new calculate column to use it as 'sort order' of your colum or create new table with raw field values and index field.
Then you can use 'sort by column' property to setting the column sort order.Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
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this is the text type, not number. So that's why you can not sort numerically.
HI carlom_iptech,
Text values can not use the numeric mode as the column sort order.
For your scenario, you can extract the number value part to create a new calculate column to use it as 'sort order' of your colum or create new table with raw field values and index field.
Then you can use 'sort by column' property to setting the column sort order.Regards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
