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On the minus side, the changes introduced in this update (mainly a selection pane and spotlight facility) are tiny, but on the plus side there is a huge new feature (bookmarks) waiting in the wings in preview mode.
- New Power BI Desktop features in the October 2017 Update
- Use the Selection Pane to Toggle Visibility of Report Items
- Spotlighting visualisations (this blog)
For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop in the last few months, see this blog. Our two-day Power BI Desktop course always uses the latest version of the software.
Posted by Andy Brown on 09 October 2017
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Spotlighting visualisations
You can click on the menu at the top right of a visualisation to make it stand out:
Here we are about to turn the spotlight onto a pie chart.
Spotlighting a visualisation dims all of the others, without hiding them:
When you click off the spotlit visualisation (here the pie chart), the others on the page reappear.
Both spotlighting and the selection pane may seem a bit pointless at this stage, but they both allow you to use a new bookmark facility (which is, alas, still in preview mode).
- New Power BI Desktop features in the October 2017 Update
- Use the Selection Pane to Toggle Visibility of Report Items
- Spotlighting visualisations (this blog)