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This is a bigger update than most, largely because it includes two major new features emerging from preview (report themes and desktop Q&A), but it's the export to PDF feature which really catches the eye.
- New features in the August 2018 update of Power BI
- Exporting a report to PDF
- Report Themes
- Q and A improved and incorporated within Power BI Desktop
- Conditional formatting by field values
- Bookmark groups
- Showing slicer choices in the header - filter restatement (this blog)
- Ability to change the categories of measures
- Summary of features still waiting in preview
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 14 August 2018
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Showing slicer choices in the header - filter restatement
Consider these two slicer choices:
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Two families selected | All families selected |
The header shows in each case what's been chosen - for some reason this is known by Microsoft as filter restatement. Here's how to enable this new feature:

Scroll down the Slicer header properties card to find the Filter restatement property, and turn it on.
This won't win my new-feature-of-the-month award! An odd name for the property, and it's a bit strange the way that it shows up in the slicer header.
- New features in the August 2018 update of Power BI
- Exporting a report to PDF
- Report Themes
- Q and A improved and incorporated within Power BI Desktop
- Conditional formatting by field values
- Bookmark groups
- Showing slicer choices in the header - filter restatement (this blog)
- Ability to change the categories of measures
- Summary of features still waiting in preview