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I have a CSV file that is sent to me weekly it has a plethora of columns but the two date columns shown below are the ones I am struggling with, You can see the in Enrollment Date and Last Check-In the date appear to be XX:XX.xx format. Ive not come across this before.
If I check the cell contents it seem to show the correct time/date in the formula bar and whats shown in the cell is a small portion of the date.
If I convert these columns to short dates in Excel they work fine as you can see here:
if I convert them back to general, I see a more traditional unformatted date:
but PowerQuery does not know how to handle them and I don't want to have to manually manage this every day.
This export has been like this forever and my predecessor just deleted the two columns, but I really need to use them do demonstrate activity.
Has anybody come across this before?
Apologes for not coming back to you. Unfortunately I only get to use PowerBI for reporting as a very small part of my job and I got dragged off to more important things.
A lot of the data I handle is quite confidential and I have to be careful uploading anything, given the fields were not essential to the report, I decided to remove them rather than struggle to fix the issue. I can no longer provide the error message.
Thanks for trying to help though, I do appreciate it.
@IanDavies
Did you apply Change type in Power Query to Date/Time ?
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That is pretty much the whole point of the post.
I can change the column format in Excel wthout issue, but if I do the same in PowerQuery it just give me errors:
@IanDavies
Please share the screenshot of the error in Power BI
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