on 09 Feb 2017 18:19:25
The number formatting should be in accordance with excel. The options available in excel for number formatting is quite brilliant.
I hope Power BI can somehow integrate custom number formatting in the desktop version.
Thank you.
- Comments (69)
RE: Number formatting
Dates are so frustrating for anyone outside of the Americas. Need formats equivalent to Excel
RE: Number formatting
It is normally in accounting reports to format revenue for readability
eg.
$123,456,789.12
as USD millions 123
we can already format the data labels on charts nicely but the functionality does not work for pivot tables.
This is annoying.
RE: Number formatting
We cannot format a measure only based on lowest and highest value
RE: Number formatting
I specifically need MMM-YY
RE: Number formatting
Confirmed gap: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Number-Format/m-p/324101#M144482.
Any update from MS on this?
RE: Number formatting
Ideally the number & date formatting options should be as in Tableau. There can be a default format for any field, not restricted to the selections in the dropdown. At the same time we also need to override the formatting in the specific visuals also
RE: Number formatting
I would agree with this post. Not being able to use power BI to build and share metrics in a readable format is holding us back from using this tool within our Enterprise 100 company. If the numbers are hard to read (missing commas, scaling factory is not able to be adjusted etc.) there's no way I can use this tool to build effective dashboards to show to my leadership. We'll simply have to use something else. If you match what you have in Excel then we'd be happy.
RE: Number formatting
Agreed, I would be very interested in this as well.
RE: Number formatting
I wish I could format the number in the visualizations (for example to have the thousand separator and so)
RE: Number formatting
Agree with others custom date formats would be very useful. At the very least Mmm-YY (Oct-17) should be added to the available list. This looks best on charts and is not ambiguous for international use.