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You can now search for formatting properties, have slicers which work across pages and create quick measures, among other new features.
- Power BI Desktop - February 2018 update new features
- Search for a formatting property
- Quick Measures
- Synchronising slicers across report pages
- Multi-select data points in a chart (this blog)
- Overflow data labels
- Marking date tables as such
- Extra DAX functions
- Features still in preview as of February 2018
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 15 February 2018
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Multi-select data points in a chart
After trying to explain how synchronised slicers work, this elegant, simple change comes as a welcome relief! Imagine that you have multiple charts on a page, and you use the Ctrl key to select certain slicers/columns:

Here I've selected to show London and the South-East regions for 2015 and 2016.
Any other visual on the same chart will then by default cross-filter to show only data for the selected points:

This matrix shows only data for the regions and years selected.
One important caveat: you must keep the Ctrl key held down all the time. If you hold it down while selecting the data points in the first chart, but then click on a data point in the second chart without holding the key down, you'll lose all your selected data points.
- Power BI Desktop - February 2018 update new features
- Search for a formatting property
- Quick Measures
- Synchronising slicers across report pages
- Multi-select data points in a chart (this blog)
- Overflow data labels
- Marking date tables as such
- Extra DAX functions
- Features still in preview as of February 2018