Power BI not taking manually inputted decimal places

[leolapa]

I was trying to create a new calculated column using DAX, and when I tried to use a hardcoded number in this calculation, I realized that Power BI will simply ignore the "dot" decimals separator and treat the number as a whole integer.

To illustrate what I mean, I manually created the table below. Please note that all columns are formatted as decimal numbers with 2 decimal places as highlighted in green, but the only number with decimal places (365.25) gets treated by Power BI as an integer (36.525,00) as highlighted in red.

I'm pretty sure this has something to do with some sort of regional settings conflict between my Windows 11 and Power BI Desktop, since I'm from Brazil and here dots are used to separate thousands and commas to separate decimals, the opposite from English US settings, and I have my whole Windows 11 setup for English, except the regional settings for numbers, dates, etc. since I mostly deal with local conventions on a daily basis.

However knowing that, I've tried all possible ways I can think of to fix that - changed regional settings on Power BI Desktop options, used comma instead of dot as decimal separator which PBI returns with an error as commas are also used to separate DAX functions, but to no avail.

Can someone please shed a light on this one?

Below I share some screenshots of my regional setting for both Windows 11 and Power BI Desktop (Global and Current File):

Thanks in advance,

Leonardo

P.S.: This issue has no relation whatsoever with "changing number type with locale" under Power Query as I'm referring to numbers hardcoded on the Power BI tables environment, thus outside of Power Query.

[v-eqin-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @leolapa ,

On my side, windows region and region settings in Power BI Desktop are United States:

So you may go to the Additional settings to manually change the format as the first screenshot shown, or change the region settings in PBI  from "Windows default" to United States:

Best Regards,
Eyelyn Qin
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