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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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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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@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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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"
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