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- DAX for Power BI Part 1 - Getting Started with DAX for Power BI
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.1 - Basic Calculated Columns in DAX
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.2 - The If Function
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.3 - The Switch Function
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.4 - Working with Blanks
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.5 - Working with Text in Calculated Columns
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.6 - Working with Dates in Calculated Columns
- DAX for Power BI Part 2.7 - Error Functions in Calculated Columns
- DAX for Power BI Part 3.1 - Relationships and the Related Function
- DAX for Power BI Part 3.2 - The LookupValue Function
- DAX for Power BI Part 4.1 - Getting Started with Measures
- DAX for Power BI Part 4.2 - Sum, SumX and Other Aggregate Functions
- DAX for Power BI Part 4.3 - Counting Values and Rows
- DAX for Power BI Part 4.4 - Using Variables
- DAX for Power BI Part 4.5 - Quick Measures
- DAX for Power BI Part 5.1 - The Calculate, Filter and CalculateTable Functions
- DAX for Power BI Part 5.2 - Removing Filters in Measures
- DAX for Power BI Part 5.3 - Replacing and Keeping Filters in Measures
- DAX for Power BI Part 5.4 - Removing Filters with AllSelected and AllExcept
- DAX for Power BI Part 6.1 - Introduction to Time Intelligence Functions
- DAX for Power BI Part 6.2 - Comparing Date Ranges
- DAX for Power BI Part 6.3 - Calculating Running Total or To-Date Values
- DAX for Power BI Part 6.4 - Opening and Closing Balance Calculations
- DAX for Power BI Part 7.1 - Creating Basic Calendar Tables in DAX
- DAX for Power BI Part 7.2 - Creating a Financial Year Calendar
- DAX for Power BI Part 7.3 - Single Calendar vs Multiple Calendars
DAX for Power BI videos | DAX for Power BI Part 2.5 - Working with Text in Calculated Columns
Posted by Andrew Gould on 23 August 2021
This video covers a variety of DAX functions for working with text. You'll learn how to join text together using the Concatenate and CombineValues functions and the concatenation operator. You'll see how to use the Format function to apply standard and custom formats to values. You'll learn how to extract text from the left, right and middle of a string, as well as how to locate the characters you want to extract using the Find or Search functions. You'll find out how to remove extra spaces from a string and how to calculate the length of a string. Finally, you'll see how to use the Replace or Substitute functions to replace one piece of text with another.
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