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kijgkijdds
6 years agoFrequent Visitor
Power BI applying scientific notation to Text FIelds
I have a text column (which is also marked as a text column, I triple checked) which stores Invoice Ids ("Document"). Depending on the vendor, some invoices have a combination of letters and numbers ...
- 6 years ago
Actually this kind of scientific number will be recognized as text, you can create calculate columns to convert the number to whole number type and then change the format of the calculate column with scientific notation.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
v-yuta-msft
Community Support
6 years ago
Actually this kind of scientific number will be recognized as text, you can create calculate columns to convert the number to whole number type and then change the format of the calculate column with scientific notation.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
kijgkijdds
6 years agoFrequent Visitor
I do not think you understand what I mean. The column is a Text field. Nevertheless, it converts a number into scientific notation.