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A summary of the (small) changes in Microsoft's January 2017 Power BI Desktop update.
- Power BI Desktop - January 2017 update (this blog)
- Word Wrap in Column Headings
- Conditional Formatting of Blank Values in a Matrix or Table
- Summarising to show earliest/latest dates, or first/last text
- Creating Phone Optimised Reports
For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop since November 2016 see this blog, or have a look at the Power BI courses that we run.
Posted by Andy Brown on 08 February 2017
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Power BI Desktop - January 2017 update
The changes included in the update in this blog are:
| New feature | Notes |
|---|---|
| Column heading word wrap | It's only a little thing, but welcome nonetheless - you can now wrap text in the headings for any table column. |
| Conditional formatting of blanks | Following on from a recent update allowing conditional formatting in matrices, you can now apply special treatment to blanks. |
| Earliest and latest dates | You can now summarise to show the earliest or latest date for any category in a table or matrix, or to show the first or last text in alphabetical order. |
| Phone optimised reports | You can now design reports specifically with a mobile phone layout in mind. |
There's also an option to import nested lists, but this is surely a niche requirement!
This blog doesn't cover all of the new features - just the ones which we think people will find useful. For a comprehensive list, go to the Microsoft Power BI Update site.
- Power BI Desktop - January 2017 update (this blog)
- Word Wrap in Column Headings
- Conditional Formatting of Blank Values in a Matrix or Table
- Summarising to show earliest/latest dates, or first/last text
- Creating Phone Optimised Reports