Text formatting

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Thu 6 Feb 2020, 08:37 Delegate Matthew said...

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Text formatting

Does anyone know why data exported to excel and then imported to power BI would come through with the code for symbols?

I use get data from an excel sheet exported from SAS EG, the data looks fine in excel, but imported to excel it comes through with 'x0020' for a space in text and 'x0028' for the & symbol. No matter what I try and do in power query I cannot get this to amend to text without the codes without going into excel and changing the columns to code, I don't want to have to do this each time as I want to hand over the SAS report with the report so they can do it themselves.

Any advice I would be most grateful.

Sat 8 Feb 2020, 11:06 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Text formatting

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for the forum question.

Sorry I have no experience on this issue. I have done some web search and I found this link.

https://www.pbiusergroup.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=aa7787ed-7040-4b89-8ee2-ed8b47c01a9c& ;CommunityKey=b35c8468-2fd8-4e1a-8429-322c39fe7110&tab=digestviewer

I guess you already have seen this and you have tried the replace option.

If it is possible for you to send the Excel source file or just a sample I can have a closer look at the specific file.

info@stl-training.co.uk

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

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