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mollig3
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

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's avatar
    v-yulgu-msft
    Microsoft Employee
    8 years ago

    Hi mollig3,

     

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

     

    Best regards,

    Yuliana Gu

    • mollig3's avatar
      mollig3
      Frequent Visitor
      8 years ago

      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.