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Power Query Converting field with Time

I have a Excel report that has the Duration entered with the following format below.  When I pull the data into my power query to add up the time, Power Query changes the data to decimal point.  I just want the duration to appear in Power Query.  The only way I can see doing this is to create a table in excel not using Power Query to create a lookup.  Any ideas how I can do this using formula?



Duration Duration Would like
0:25 0.017361 25 
0:25 0.017361 25 
1:00 0.041667 60 
0:45 0.03125 45 
0:20 0.013889 20 
0:10 0.006944 10 
0:30 0.020833 30 
1:00 0.041667 60 
8:00 0.333333 480 
1:00 0.041667 60 
0:30 0.020833 30 
0:15 0.010417 15 
1:00 0.041667 30 
0:30 0.020833 30 
1:30 0.0625 90 
1:00 0.041667 60 
1:00 0.041667 60 
0:15 0.010417 15 
0:40 0.027778 40 
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Fowmy
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@STIBBS_807 

If you need to get the seconds from decimal then add the following custom column:

Number.Round ( [Duration] * 1440  , 0 )

 

If you need to convert it to duration then you can change the type to decimal and add the following column

then change type to Duration

Duration.From([your decimal])

 

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Fowmy
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@STIBBS_807 

If you need to get the seconds from decimal then add the following custom column:

Number.Round ( [Duration] * 1440  , 0 )

 

If you need to convert it to duration then you can change the type to decimal and add the following column

then change type to Duration

Duration.From([your decimal])

 

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jennratten
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Hello!  Here you go.  If the Duration column should is of type duration (changing the type to duration should should make the column appear as in the screensnip below with hour, min and sec) then you can use Duration.TotalSeconds([Duration]) function.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjCwAiIjUyUdJSARq4NLxBAoCBQxM0BSYwJSY4KiC6TGCFmNIUjEEFnEGCRibIDHZAuIiIkFPkWYBgEtAznIEMPRxvitB4tY4rMLm+3odgGDA+xooJpYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Duration = _t, #"Would like" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Duration", type duration}, {"Would like", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Inserted Total Seconds" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Total Seconds", each Duration.TotalSeconds([Duration]), type number)
in
    #"Inserted Total Seconds"

jennratten_0-1630517245501.png

 

 

 

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