
When applying column formatting, you can only choose one alignment option per column: Auto, Left, Center, Right.

To show the entire column name, hover over the space to the right of the heading to reveal the double arrows, select, and drag. Sometimes Power BI will truncate a column heading in a report and on a dashboard. Select Copy > Copy selection to copy the formatted cell values to your clipboard. Right-click inside one of the cells you selected. Select a range of cells or use Ctrl to select one or more cells. Select Copy > Copy value to copy the unformatted cell value to your clipboard. In Power BI, when you right-click inside a cell, you can copy the data in a single cell or a selection of cells onto your clipboard, and paste it into the other applications. Your table or matrix may include content that you'd like to use in other applications, like Dynamics CRM, Excel, and even other Power BI reports. Open the Conditional formatting card next to This year sales, then select Icons.Ĭopy values from Power BI tables for use in other applications In the dialog that appears, set colors for Positive bar and Negative bar, select the Show bar only option, and make any other changes you'd like.ĭata bars replace the numerical values in the table, making it easier to scan.Īdd visual cues to your table with conditional icons. Select Data bars under Conditional formatting. Select Sales > Total Sales Variance and drag it to the Columns well. Select Add a middle color, add some colors, and select OK.Īdd a new field to the table that has both positive and negative values. Let's apply some custom formatting to our Average Unit Price values. If you select the Add a middle color option, you can configure an optional Center value as well. Then open the Conditional formatting card and choose Background color. Select the dropdown next to a field under Columns.

With conditional formatting for tables, you can specify icons, URLs, cell background colors, and font colors based on cell values, including using gradient colors. Power BI can apply conditional formatting to any of the fields that you added to the Columns well of the Visualizations pane. You'll have to manually set the thresholds or ranges for your conditional formatting rules, and for matrices the Values still refer to the lowest visible level of the matrix hierarchy. You can apply conditional formatting for subtotals and totals, by selecting the conditional formatting you want then using the Apply to drop-down menu in the conditional formatting advanced controls dialog. There are other ways to format tables too. Once you've adjusted the settings, decide whether to apply those settings to the header and totals row as well.Īfter some more formatting, here is our final table. Depending on the column values, Specific column lets you set things like: display units, font color, number of decimal places, background, alignment, and more. Start by expanding Specific column and selecting the column to format from the drop-down. You can even apply formatting to individual columns and column headers. Here you'll add blue grid lines.įor the column headers, change the background color, increase the font size, change the alignment, and turn on text wrap. A great way to learn about the other formatting options is to select the paint brush icon to open the Format pane. In the Visualizations pane, locate the Columns well and rearrange the fields until the order of your chart columns matches the first image on this page. Then select Sales > This Year Sales and select all three options: Value, Goal, and Status. Select Sales > Average Unit Price and Sales > Last Year Sales. Power BI automatically creates a table that lists all the categories. You can create the table pictured at the beginning of the article to display sales values by item category.įrom the Fields pane, select Item > Category.
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