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rjunai200
Helper I
Helper I

Question about date sorting for chart

Hi i am new to power bi and am figuring out how to sort the Month Date as right now its showing april, jan, feb  ect. i tried a few things to convert the Text range to date as i export data from excel  but it did not help

 

my data is setup as following:

 

A   January 56566

B   January 26548

C   January 45455

A   February 51150 

B...February 

c..February 

 

I searched and found a few formus that discuss this issue. but they had a more complex date fomat so it was harder to follow.

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Sean
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Community Champion

@rjunai200 follow the picture... let me know if it works...

Sort by Month Name.png

 

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rjunai200
Helper I
Helper I

No it just includes the month (January, Feb) since all the data is 2016
Sean
Community Champion
Community Champion

@rjunai200 follow the picture... let me know if it works...

Sort by Month Name.png

 

thank you that did work! is there any way i can format it in excel before i upload the file into Power BI

Sean
Community Champion
Community Champion

Should work the same way!

Sort by Month Name2.png

Sean
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Community Champion

do you have a Date column that includes the full date? or day and year columns as well? or a calendar table?

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