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Field descriptions anyone? This is a fairly minor update, although we like responsive horizontal slicers, and there are some exciting things coming up in preview mode.
- December 2017 Updates
- Field descriptions
- Scatter charts now compare numerical values
- Responsive slicers
- Drilling down filters all visuals for a page
- Undocumented new features (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 04 January 2018
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Undocumented new features
I'm probably being a bit unfair to Microsoft here. I think that these are changed features, but it's possible I'm wrong and I just hadn't noticed the changes in previous releases.
Arrows to change font size
I swear these weren't there before!
These arrows are very welcome!
Moving to front/sending to back in the selection pane
Last month I blogged about how you can choose to select different items on a report:
Enabling the selection pane.
You can now change the Z-order of items (that is, whether they appear in front of or behind other items):
Click on an arrow to move the selected item in front of or behind other items.
And with that, I think I've finished showing the interesting updates for December 2017!
- December 2017 Updates
- Field descriptions
- Scatter charts now compare numerical values
- Responsive slicers
- Drilling down filters all visuals for a page
- Undocumented new features (this blog)