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Hi, I have an Excel file with year column as 2017, 2016, 2015 etc. In addition I have a month colmun. When I source this Excel sheet, the year as oppose to the month column is not recognized by Po...
If you need to sort the data my the month and year, you can create a new calculated field.
month-year = format([month],"00")&"-"&[Year]
Hi NirH,
In Power BI, it’s impossible to set a year column to 'Date' type in “yyyy” format. If you change a column with just years into date type format, it will format your data into a date.
Why does it do this? Well, it's probably because there is really no reason to convert years to a Date field anyway. It doesn't give you any extra functionality or anything. You can use the year field however you want (as a filter, in a visual, in a measure) WITHOUT it being in Date format!
My suggestion: leave the column in whole number / integer format.
Hope this helps.
Ganesh