First of all, why do we need to change the language of the calendar? If we're working on a report, which is going to have multiple languages for different users, changing the language of the calendar is a must and there are 2 ways to do that. The first one is the one that I don't recommend, changing the current file's regional settings from options and settings menu. This is the option to change the file's language and it's quite handy when we need to do that. But what if we only want to change the calendar's language, not the whole file. And what if we want to have multiple language options for our calendar. In that situation, this menu is not going to be much of a help. So how can we do it? First, let's look at our date table code in M language. As you see, in lines 12 and 14. Date.ToText function is used to create Monthname and Dayname columns. Date.ToText function's name is quite self-explanatory. It converts date numbers to text. If you'd like ...
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