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A. BoxA Power BI Compendiumhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9765-0_2

2. Slicers and Filtering

Alison Box1  
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Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK
 

One of the key ingredients of any Power BI report is the ability of consumers of the report to browse information by filtering the subsets of data that are important to them. However, designing reports where filters work in the way you want is not always straightforward. There are numerous ways that users can interact with a report, using slicers, using the Filters pane, or simply clicking on bars or columns in charts. In this chapter, we uncover some of the more obscure areas of filtering data that can improve the ...

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