Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2023
Can you remove all of the formatting that you've applied to a visual? Apparently you can, although this new feature was never announced in an update.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2023
This update make slicer formatting much more consistent (a welcome change), and introduces 3 fairly complex new DAX functions (OFFSET, INDEX and WINDOW).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 December 2022
We've added sections on Power Apps and Power Automate to our two-day Advanced Power BI (Data) course, and downgraded 3 topics to be covered only if time allows to make room for these.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 December 2022
Not sure whether to choose Report Builder paginated reports for printing or Power BI interactive ones for showing on screen? Now you don't have to choose, as this blog explains.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 December 2022
This update includes the roll-out of field parameters, separate Y axes for small multiples and new DAX debugging functions - and a new colour for Power BI!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 October 2022
Another small update, allowing you to reverse the stack order of column charts and edit DAX formulae in model view, but not much else.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 September 2022
You can now format reports differently for mobile view and display X axis labe`s hierarchically by default. One other tiny change is that default column titles in tables now include the summarisation method used.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 September 2022
There's a tiny change to conditional formatting of data labels this month, but that's about it!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 25 July 2022
You can now display error bars in charts, as well as formatting them and adding error labels.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 June 2022
Following last month's high-level comparison between Power BI and Tableau, what aspect of these two popular BI software tools would you like us to focus on next?
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 June 2022
This month sees a smattering of new features, including nicer-looking tables, a new data hub and story-telling in PowerPoint.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 07 June 2022
Power BI and Tableau are the two leading BI tools, but how do they compare? We've teamed up with Steve Adams of Viz DJ to find out!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 May 2022
Small improvements this month, but welcome ones - particularly the ability to zoom in and out, and to select data points in (some) charts using a selection rectangle.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 April 2022
Did you know that you could use Power BI as a tool to scrape websites, using the Html.Table M function? We didn't either until now!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 20 April 2022
A small update this month, with the main change being the addition of a few formatting options for matrices and chart legends.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 March 2022
Marco Russo of sqlbi.com is a (the?) expert in Power BI, so any new tool announced by him has to be worth consideration. Bravo is a new Power BI add-in which lets you analyse your data models, format your DAX, automate the creation of date tables and export data model tables to Excel.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 March 2022
It can be hard to track down that elusive animal, the Power BI Updates schedule, but we've found two hidden in the Internet undergrowth
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 March 2022
There are no significant new features announced in March's Power BI Desktop update, although error bars for line charts are now in preview.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 18 February 2022
The February update enables the big new formatting pane in Power BI by default, as well as introducing changes to mobile view and multi-row cards.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 January 2022
Can you play Wordle in Power BI? Of course you can! This blog explains how you can get Power BI to do something which it is eminently unsuited to do!