"Month Number" Formula

Hi Anonymous ,

That's a pity... since there is no M Power Query function to reverse MonthNames to Numbers... There is always the possibility for twelve if clauses I suppose, but here another one that you might consider sufficient:

Create a new custom column with the following code:

Date.Month ( Date.FromText ( "1 " & [MonthName] & " 2022" ) )

Here the code in Power Query M that you can paste into the advanced editor (if you do not know, how to exactly do this, please check out this quick walkthrough)

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45W8krMK00sqlSK1YlWcktNKoJzfBOLkjPALMeCoswcqBhEzqs0LxXKyIGIOJamlxaXgJnBqQUlqblJqUVgnn9yST6M7ZdfhpBwSU2GcmIB", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [MonthName = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"MonthName", type text}}),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "MonthNumber", each Date.Month ( Date.FromText ( "1 " & [MonthName] & " 2022" ) ))
in
    #"Added Custom"

Does this work for you? 🙂

/Tom
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