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Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop Part three of a six-part series of blogs
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. Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop Changes to themes and general formatting Changes to slicers (this blog) Changes to charts Changes to matrices Miscellaneous other changes to Power BI

Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop

Part three of a six-part series of blogs

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.

Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop
Changes to themes and general formatting
Changes to slicers (this blog)
Changes to charts
Changes to matrices
Miscellaneous other changes to Power BI

Posted by Andy Brown on 22 October 2026

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Formatting sliders for slicers
More options for the date picker
Formatting dropdown slicers
The new (preview) list slicer

This blog summarises changes made to slicers in the July, August, September and October 2026 Power BI updates.

Formatting sliders for slicers

This is what a numerical slicer (for example) looks like by default:

The unselected bit on the left and right is called the "tracker"; the bit which is selected is (not unreasonably) called the "selected range".

You can now format every part of the slider:

The old adage: just because you can do something, it doesn't mean that you should.

Here's what the above settings would show for our slicer:

Yuk!

More options for the date picker

There are more options for relative dates if you're slicing by a date column:

These extra settings apply if you've chosen to show a Relative Date slicer for a date column.

You can now choose calendar weeks, months or years from the dropdown which appears:

The full range of relative date options.

Formatting dropdown slicers

If you have chosen to display a slicer as a dropdown, you can now format this within inches of its life:

Formatting options for a slicer dropdown

But again, just because you can do something ... !

Here's what the above settings would show:

The top left and bottom right rounded corners were probably a mistake!

The new (preview) list slicer

There is now another visual slicer icon on the palette, albeit marked as preview:

The new list slicer is enabled in preview by default.

This new list slicer seems to me to replicate something which pretty much already existed:

The new list slicer is similar to a dropdown version of the existing standard slicer.

The big innovation is that you can choose to display a button asking that the items you've selected should appear at the top of the list:

Toggling this on means a user gets the opportunity to show the items he or she has selected at the top of the dropdown.

Right now I can't see the point of this new slicer, particularly as you can also apply the new Show selected first option to a button slicer, so I can only think Microsoft are intending to remove all dropdown options from the standard slicer at some stage in the future to simplify it.

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Autumn 2026 - a summary of recent changes to Power BI Desktop Changes to themes and general formatting Changes to slicers (this blog) Changes to charts Changes to matrices Miscellaneous other changes to Power BI

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