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vipett
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9 months ago
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Wrong number formatting data label when highlighted

I have a simple graph with a measure "On time" which is formatted as %, normally it looks fine   But if I highlight a category or country or anything it loses its data formatting:  ...
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    vipett
    9 months ago

    It sounds reasonable, but still doesn't work..

    Luckily this was not in a Production file, but just connected to a test environment and in the production environment it worked without any workarounds..

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GeraldGEmerick
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9 months ago

vipett I'm not able to replicate this behavior when I set a column to be "%" formatted in the Formatting section of the Column tools tab in the ribbon. How are you doing your formatting?

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vipett
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9 months ago

THis is how I set it

 

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    GeraldGEmerick
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    9 months ago

    vipett Which version of Power BI Desktop are you using? I am currently on the November 2025 version.

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      vipett
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      9 months ago

      Version: 2.149.1252.0 64-bit (November 2025)

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        GeraldGEmerick
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        9 months ago

        vipett I don't suppose you can share the file via OneDrive or Box or something can you? Or maybe a separate file that demonstrates the issue. I can't for the life of me recreate this myself so I would be super interested to see what is going on here.