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Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update Part four of a five-part series of blogs
Small improvements this month, but welcome ones - particularly the ability to zoom in and out, and to select data points in (some) charts using a selection rectangle. Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update You can now zoom in and out in Power BI Desktop! Lassoing data points using a rectangle for a chart Automatically expanding all formatting categories (this blog) ArcGIS has improved - apparently

Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update

Part four of a five-part series of blogs

Small improvements this month, but welcome ones - particularly the ability to zoom in and out, and to select data points in (some) charts using a selection rectangle.

Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update
You can now zoom in and out in Power BI Desktop!
Lassoing data points using a rectangle for a chart
Automatically expanding all formatting categories (this blog)
ArcGIS has improved - apparently

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 May 2022

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

Automatically expanding all formatting categories

In response to angry emails, one presumes, Microsoft have added an option to expand all formatting categories by default:

You can get to this option by choosing File -> Options and settings and then Options, then clicking on the Report settings tab as shown.

Here's the difference this makes:


Normal view	With the option enabled

Personally I'm with Microsoft: I like the way the new view appears uncluttered, and don't mind having to expand categories to view their contents!

Parts of this blog
Changes for the May 2022 Power BI Desktop update You can now zoom in and out in Power BI Desktop! Lassoing data points using a rectangle for a chart Automatically expanding all formatting categories (this blog) ArcGIS has improved - apparently