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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

By : Greg Deckler, Powell
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Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

Microsoft Power BI Cookbook

4.8 (12)
By: Greg Deckler, Powell

Overview of this book

The complete everyday reference guide to Power BI, written by an internationally recognized Power BI expert duo, is back with a new and updated edition. Packed with revised practical recipes, Microsoft Power BI Cookbook, Second Edition, helps you navigate Power BI tools and advanced features. It also demonstrates the use of end-to-end solutions that integrate those features to get the most out of Power BI. With the help of the recipes in this book, you’ll gain advanced design and development insight, practical tips, and guidance on enhancing existing Power BI projects. The updated recipes will equip you with everything you need to know to implement evergreen frameworks that will stay relevant as Power BI updates. You’ll familiarize yourself with Power BI development tools and services by going deep into the data connectivity, transformation, modeling, visualization, and analytical capabilities of Power BI. By the end of this book, you’ll make the most of Power BI’s functional programming languages of DAX and M and deliver powerful solutions to common business intelligence challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Formatting Reports for Publication

Power BI Desktop includes features to control and enhance the formatting and layout of reports at a detailed level. Prior to publishing reports to the Power BI service, visuals can be aligned, sized, and evenly spaced to deliver an organized, symmetrical layout. Additionally, supplemental report elements, such as shapes, text boxes, and images, can be added to further organize and enrich report pages with textual and visual aids.

This recipe demonstrates how to control the positioning, alignment, and distribution of report visuals, as well as tips for presenting and working with visuals in groups. Additionally, helpful tips are presented for final clean-up items prior to publishing a report, as well as setting up Q&A after publishing.

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