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    PowerPivot: Merge Month Field and Year Field Into a Date Field

    Hello all,

    I have a table in PowerPivot that is linked to a table from an Access database. I have a [ReportingMonth] field in MMMM format and a [ReportingYear] field in YYYY format. I'm looking for a way to combine the two fields into a [ReportingDate] field in MM/DD/YYYY format so that I can create a relationship with my Date Table. All of my reporting is by month, quarter and year so the day doesn't really matter. As I was trying to work this out myself I started with a simple =Month([Reporting Month]) formula, but I get an error stating, "Calculation error...:Cannot convert value 'September' of type Text to type Date. However, the data type for the calculated column is currently set as Auto (Whole Number).

    Does anyone have a solve for this?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: PowerPivot: Merge Month Field and Year Field Into a Date Field

    Sounds like a Formatting issue.. Something like Dates being entered as Text
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    Re: PowerPivot: Merge Month Field and Year Field Into a Date Field

    "September" is text, not a date, so you can't use Month on it. To get a true date you can use DATEVALUE:
    =DATEVALUE("01-"&[ReportingMonth]&"-"&[ReportingYear])
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    Re: PowerPivot: Merge Month Field and Year Field Into a Date Field

    Thanks romperstomper, that formula worked. I had tried that formula earlier but put it in month/day/year order and got an error. I didn't realize it had to be in day/month/year order. I appreciate your help.

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