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How to custom color value labels on a Pie Chart

27 August 2025

Welcome to the custom coloring pie chart labels post! This isn’t hard to do, but the option is hidden just a little bit. Once you know where it is, you’ll use it all the time. We’re going to use a simple Power BI file to get to know how to…

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Why value labels can fail on line charts, and how to fix it.

24 June 2025

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…

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