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This is a small update, but a very welcome one! You can now (finally) zoom in the DAX editing window, and also use smart guides to align visuals. There are also other minor cosmetic and keyboard updates.
- Changes for the December 2018 update to Power BI
- Smart guides help you to align objects
- Changes to the DAX editor
- Cosmetic changes to the look of Power BI (this blog)
- Keyboard changes
- Features still in preview as of December 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 13 December 2018
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Cosmetic changes to the look of Power BI
There are an unusual number of small changes to how Power BI looks this month - some announced, some not so.
The selection pane eyes have disappeared:
It's much harder now to see whether a visual is visible or not. Can you see which of these 4 visuals is hidden? Bring back the eyes!
The visual interaction tools have changed:
Do these tools make anything easier to understand? If anything I think they're probably harder to interpret!
And finally, you can now assign tooltips to action buttons:
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So a couple of slightly retrograde changes and one small improvement.
- Changes for the December 2018 update to Power BI
- Smart guides help you to align objects
- Changes to the DAX editor
- Cosmetic changes to the look of Power BI (this blog)
- Keyboard changes
- Features still in preview as of December 2018