Using the new sentence template tooltips in Power BI reports

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Using the new sentence template tooltips in Power BI reports
The new sentence format tooltips provide a nice simple halfway house between the default tooltips you get in a Power BI report and full-blown customised report tooltips.

Posted by Andy Brown on 23 June 2026

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Preparing to Create Sentence Tooltips
Creating Sentence Tooltips
Setting additional options

Sentence template tooltips are a great idea!

An example of a sentence tooltip, picking up on the region name, centre type name and total sales.

This is what you would normally have got for this tooltip:

A normal tooltip would show the values for each field used in the visual in a tabular format.

Preparing to Create Sentence Tooltips

Before you create a sentence tooltip you must know what the fields are called in your visual:

Here we've renamed the RegionName column to just Region.

Creating Sentence Tooltips

To create and apply sentence tooltips, first select the visual whose tooltips you want to change, then go to its General formatting properties:

Expand the Tooltips card for your visual as shown above.

You can now type in how you want your sentence to read:

You must include each field name in curly brackets: { and }.

If you get the name of a field wrong, or use the wrong parentheses, the literal text that you typed in will appear (rather than the column value for the part of the visual you're hovering over).

Setting additional options

Here's what the extra toggles do in the diagram above:

Toggle	What it does
Sentence format only	You definitely want to enable this (it's not the default); sentences combined with normal tooltips look strange!
Bold values	On balance this owl thinks sentences look better if you highlight the variable parts in bold (as in our example at the start of this blog).

And with that, I think you now know everything that there is to know about this great (if simple) new feature!

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