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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
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts (this blog)
- Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018
For a cumulative list of all of the updates to Power BI Desktop in the last few year or two, 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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Improvements to dot (scatter) charts
Microsoft have made a "substantial update" to scatter charts, allowing you to show categories on the X axis:

I'm not sure how substantial this improvement actually is - but then, I don't work with scatter charts much.
For anyone who wants to see the gubbins behind this, here are my field well selections:

The main change is to remove any Details selection, and show a text field in the X Axis section.
Sorry - I may be missing the point, but I can't get that excited about this change, which is why it comes last in my list!
- 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
- Column From Examples now allows for text padding
- Improvements to dot (scatter) charts (this blog)
- Features awaiting in preview as of September 2018