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The September update of Power BI finally breathes life into report page tooltips, which have been in limbo for a while. You can also copy data from Power BI reports by right-clicking, use some keyboard short-cuts for visual design, apply built-in themes, set fixed-width padding by column example and show categories on the X axis of scatter charts.
- Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
- Report page tooltips
- Copying values and records
- Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
- Built-in themes (this blog)
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts
- Features awaiting in preview as of September 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 21 September 2018
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Built-in themes
You can now apply one of 7 pre-built themes to your reports, avoiding having to create your own:

This dropdown is on the main Home tab of the Power BI ribbon.
Here's how the Electric theme shown selected above would change a report:
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Before ... | ... and after |
If you can't spot much difference, that's probably because it wasn't a very fair test, as I'd already "hard-coded" many of the colours for this report page.
- Changes introduced in the September 2018 Power BI update
- Report page tooltips
- Copying values and records
- Keyboard short-cuts in Power BI Desktop
- Built-in themes (this blog)
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts
- Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018