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exodusme
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Column with Text and Decimal Numbers

Hello, I have a column that has both text and numbers in it that is imported from excel. When I bring the column into powerquery it adds a bunch of decimals to it. Not sure what is up. I try to edit it in the excel file and that is fine there, so I don't know what to do.UID Sheet.PNGUID#.PNG

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slorin
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Hi

Round only if type = number

Table.TransformColumns(Your_Source,{{"Your_Column", each if Value.Type(_) = type number then Number.Round(_,2) else _}})

Stéphane

 

Table.TransformColumns(fact_UID,{{[Unique ID Number], each if Value.Type([Unique ID Number]) = type number then Number.Round([Unique ID Number],2) else [Unique ID Number]}})

 

I am getting "Expression.Error: A cyclic reference was encountered during evaluation"

 

I am guessing I am not using the appropriate formatting for the expression? Not sure where I went wrong though. Thank you for your time.

Table.TransformColumns(fact_UID,{{[Unique ID Number], each if Value.Type(_) = type number then Number.Round(_,2) else _}})

 

Stephane 

 

still getting the cyclical reference =\

Greg_Deckler
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@exodusme Maybe try rounding it?



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the column also contains text that i cannot round

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