Welcome to the post about how to FORMAT a table visual in Power BI. This post will go over some basic table visual design principles to make your table visuals easier on your audience, because tables show a LOT of data at once. If you want to use the same…
Hey everyone! Welcome to this How To Use Power BI post, which is actually a How to NOT Use Power BI post. Freaky, right? This post isn’t a technical one that will show you what to click to get something done in Power BI, but more of a chart design…
Welcome to the searching formatting options post on How To Use Power BI. We’re going to look at a really simple and useful formatting feature that even I forget about, even though I’ve used Power BI almost every day for years and years and years. Maybe *I* am the only…
Power BI is an extremely powerful piece of software, so it’s especially disappointing when Microsoft bills it as “data visualization” software and completely fails on small (but essential) things that take Data Viz from existing to excellent. This post explores one of these fails. We’re going to use a simple…
We’re going to learn a formatting tip in this edition of How To Use Power BI and it’s specifically about an annoying formatting limitation that is turned on in Power BI by default. There *IS* a very good reason for this limitation, but it doesn’t need to be on…
You probably don’t need legends on your Line Charts. Series Labels are an option on Line and Area charts and allows you to get rid of your Legend. Why would you want to get rid of your legend? We’ll cover that too! We’re going to use a Power BI report with…
This post is a Hot Tip post, helping you solve something in Power BI. Specifically, this post is about a user interface design flaw in the (relatively) new Card visual, and we run across it when we try to change the display units of a number in the visual. So,…
It’s always important to align visuals in Power BI. Alignment helps organize how your reports look and helps your reports look more professional.There are 4 main ways to align visuals and we’ll go over them all in this post. We’re going to use a Power BI report that already has…
In this post we’re going to learn how to format Pie Charts.I highly recommend that before learning from this post you watch/read the post about how to make a Pie Chart, which goes over how NOT to make them as well. Pie Charts are your best chart option in very…
We’re going to learn a bit more about our Formatting options in Power BI Desktop in this post. Power BI has some page formatting options that are good to know about if you need them. The Page Formatting tools show up when you have nothing selected in your report. So,…