You can now change the colour of individual segments of a line chart

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Power BI Desktop updates for May 2025 Part four of a five-part series of blogs
A month which sees minor changes to line segments, Azure maps, calculation groups and TMDL model view, and major changes in preview for Copilot and something called "translytical task flows". Changes introduced in the May 2025 Power BI Desktop update Copilot changes within Power BI, and why we're not covering them Improvements to TMDL model view You can now change the colour of individual segments of a line chart (this blog) You can customise what appears on the base layer of Azure maps

Power BI Desktop updates for May 2025

Part four of a five-part series of blogs

A month which sees minor changes to line segments, Azure maps, calculation groups and TMDL model view, and major changes in preview for Copilot and something called "translytical task flows".

Changes introduced in the May 2025 Power BI Desktop update
Copilot changes within Power BI, and why we're not covering them
Improvements to TMDL model view
You can now change the colour of individual segments of a line chart (this blog)
You can customise what appears on the base layer of Azure maps

Posted by Andy Brown on 04 June 2025

You can now change the colour of individual line segemnts - for example, to achieve this effect:

May, September and October coloured differently

We've coloured May, September and October differently.

To achieve this effect, go into the formatting properties for a line chart and choose a data point you want to format:

Here we've chosen October.

You can now choose a colour:

I've gone for ... pale lilac?

This change brings line charts in line (excuse the pun) with column, bar and other charts, and will - apparently - also allow Microsoft to apply conditional formatting to line chart segments in the near future.

Parts of this blog
Changes introduced in the May 2025 Power BI Desktop update Copilot changes within Power BI, and why we're not covering them Improvements to TMDL model view You can now change the colour of individual segments of a line chart (this blog) You can customise what appears on the base layer of Azure maps