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JoaoMS
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6 years ago
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Sort Colum in Power Query with Month Text

Dear all, I have a table with two columns which shows the exchange rate of two currencies per month. The raw data is like this (spanish):   MonthYear ER Ene19 3.332 Feb19 3.304 Mar19...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    JoaoMS 

    You would need to replace the Spanish to English first, because the Power Bi cannot read and sort month from different languages.

    After all the values are displayed in "19-Jan","19-Feb". You can just change the Data Type from text to date, then sort.

     

    Paul Zheng
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6 years ago

JoaoMS 

You would need to replace the Spanish to English first, because the Power Bi cannot read and sort month from different languages.

After all the values are displayed in "19-Jan","19-Feb". You can just change the Data Type from text to date, then sort.

 

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