Option to FORMAT () values as numbers (not strings)

[clara_pantoja]

The FORMAT () function should be extremely flexible for conditionally formatting measures based on slicers and so on. But right now not even chart visuals agree with it. Please fix it? Pretty please?

[DarrenDougill1]

Why allow a user to create a measure and format as currency/percentage etc and give the output as text so you can't plot on a chart, which is the whole purpose of Power BI?

Please can this be done?

[AndyJohnson]

Either allow a specific number type to be included in the FORMAT() function or allow formats to be applied with an expression from a data driven field in the model within the measure formatting window. The format measure window currently only allows a static input, but ultimately setting a format here still allows measures to be plotted to charts.

[ecrane]

Still relevant. I could use this functionality for a current project!