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Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop Part five of a six-part series of blogs |
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This blog shows the main changes which have been made to Power BI in the July, August, September and October updates, insofar as they affect report creators. |
This blog lists the main changes made to the matrix visual in the July, August, September and October Power BI updates.
Now this is a change worth blogging about! You can now say in any visual that the row headers on the left should remain visible as you scroll horizontally to the right:

Although I've scrolled to the right, I can still see the titles on the left.
Presumably in some future version of Power BI you'll be able to freeze the column headers too?
This Excel-style feature must be hard to program in (this is the only possible explanation why it's taken so long for Microsoft to incorporate it into Power BI). However, it's very welcome now.
In a matrix you've been able to expand row headers for some time, but you can now do the same with column headers:

You can click on the + and - icons to expand or collapse columns.
Should the mood take you, you can change the appearance of the icons shown above:

The formatting card for the + and - icons.
Here's what the above settings would produce:

It's hard to see this formatting as an improvement!
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