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Anonymous
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Power Query automatically changes text to number

Hi, I have a table as below with the first column stating Period with abreviations of the months

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But when importing the data into Power BI the first column with the abreviations of months was turned into some numbers as below

minhduc_nguyen_1-1600162938482.png

Is this an error or did I do something wrong? Appreicate any helps thanks in advanced



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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , I doubt you excel has date where you have shown the month value, they are not of text type.  That is why it converting it like this in power BI

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amitchandak
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@Anonymous , I doubt you excel has date where you have shown the month value, they are not of text type.  That is why it converting it like this in power BI

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