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Learn Power BI

by Greg Deckler
September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
362 pages
9h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Formatting columns

Now that we have a single table data model and some columns, let's take a closer look at what we can do with this data:

  1. Start by clicking on the Date column.
  2. Change the Data type by clicking on the drop-down arrow and select Date. Format automatically changes to *Wednesday, March 14, 2001 (dddd, MMMM, d, yyyy). Note that this could be slightly different depending on your language settings:

Figure 5: Data type and Format options in the ribbon
Note that, in the Modeling tab's Formatting area, the data type reads Date/Time and the format just below this reads *3/14/2001 1:30:55 PM (G).

All of the values for the Date column ...

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