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mollig3
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date formats

I have an excel file that contains a date column. In the query editor, it is formatted as "date". Then, when I come to use it in a bar graph and select the display as months, I choose modeling>then change it to format as "mm-yyyy". However, it does not show up on the graph as the way i have it selected to display. Am I missing something?? Thanks in advance for any help!

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v-yulgu-msft
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Hi @mollig3,

 

When you added date to X-axis of bar chart, did you change the default date hierarchy to original date format?

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Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Yes, that is how my date appears when I pull it into the X-axis. But I have january and february of 2017 and 2018 and the rest of the months I only have as 2017 so I'm hoping to distinguish between the different years when the month is the same.

 

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