Please tell me how to round numbers?

[Netrelemo]

How on earth does this glorious macro tool called PowerQuery, do rounding? 

• Type "0.925" into Excel. 
• Play with the toolbar
• 
• Decrease deimals, and the number goes to 0.93 

Now try it in powerquery

• Amount = 0.925
• Round([Amount],2) = 0.92

What secret paremeter must I use to do the calculation correctly? 

[jdbuchanan71]

Use the formatting options in Excel once the data is loaded in.

[jdbuchanan71]

That is odd.  The fact that the step it adds is called "Round Off" seems like it is doing a truncate instead of round.

Can you send it to the model without doing any rounding?  The formatting on a measure seems to do it correctly.

 

[Netrelemo]

As I mentioned, this is PowerQuery in Excel. I appreciate this might be a PowerBI Forum only, in which case, my apologies. 

I use this foprum as my "go to" for PowerQuery questions. 

I don't have "a model" in the PowerBI sense

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjQ1NzU01bM0MlWKjQUA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"RAW Number" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"RAW Number", type number}}),
    #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Round", each Number.Round([RAW Number],2)),
    #"Added Custom2" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Custom1", "FancyRound", each Number.Round([RAW Number], 2, RoundingMode.Up))
in
    #"Added Custom2"

So this query above, in Excel doesn;t work

But in Power BI it does. 

[Netrelemo]

Thanks, but it doesn't work. 

[Anonymous]

Hi @Netrelemo 

After testing, the function can work well in power query in excel, you can refer to the following picture

Maybe you can try to close the power query and reopen it again, and check if your excel is the latest version.

Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[Greg_Deckler]

@Netrelemo That's very odd as it works in Power Query in Power BI Desktop. That would indicate some kind of difference between the Power Query engines in Excel versus Power BI and that's fairly concerning.

[Netrelemo]

I would agree... but the real question then is ... concerning enough to fix? And I wouldn't know how to "raise the ticket", so to speak. 

[Greg_Deckler]

@Netrelemo Number.Round([Column1], 2, RoundingMode.Up)