Allowing horizontal alignment of chart data labels

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What's new in the March 2024 Power BI Desktop update Part three of a four-part series of blogs
There are updates to on-object interactions and visual calculations this month, but these major new features still remain in preview. This leaves small changes to data bar and data label formatting - and a new way of doing row-level security - as the only signficant changes in this month's update. What's new in the March 2024 Power BI Desktop update Changing the scope of table and matrix data bars Allowing horizontal alignment of chart data labels (this blog) You can now create row-level security without DAX

What's new in the March 2024 Power BI Desktop update

Part three of a four-part series of blogs

There are updates to on-object interactions and visual calculations this month, but these major new features still remain in preview. This leaves small changes to data bar and data label formatting - and a new way of doing row-level security - as the only signficant changes in this month's update.

What's new in the March 2024 Power BI Desktop update
Changing the scope of table and matrix data bars
Allowing horizontal alignment of chart data labels (this blog)
You can now create row-level security without DAX

Posted by Andy Brown on 28 March 2024

We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

This will be a short blog! You can already apply a hundred and one different formatting options to data labels to produce charts like this:

A chart with a value and detail field, with custom number formatting applied.

Well, now there are a hundred and two options:

You can also now change the horizontal alignment of data labels.

Here's how this would change the above chart:

The chart's data labels are now right-aligned.

And I think that's it for this blog!

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What's new in the March 2024 Power BI Desktop update Changing the scope of table and matrix data bars Allowing horizontal alignment of chart data labels (this blog) You can now create row-level security without DAX