The main new features in the March 2017 update of Power BI Desktop
Part three of a four-part series of blogs

This is a small update, although the new matrix tool which is currently in preview mode will be a big change.

  1. Power BI Desktop - March Update
  2. New matrix visiualisation in preview
  3. Colours Allowed in Text Boxes (this blog)
  4. Percent-of-Total Labels in Pie and Donut Charts

You can see a list of all updates going back to November 2016 here.

Posted by Andy Brown on 24 March 2017

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Colours Allowed in Text Boxes

So it's probably not going to change your life, but you can now change the colour of text in a text box:

Colouring owls

Owls are pink - or at least, this one soon will be ...

Every little helps!

  1. Power BI Desktop - March Update
  2. New matrix visiualisation in preview
  3. Colours Allowed in Text Boxes (this blog)
  4. Percent-of-Total Labels in Pie and Donut Charts
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