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17. Formatting Charts in Power BI Desktop

Adam Aspin1 
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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK
 

Now that you have mastered basic charts, it is time to move on to the next step and learn how to tweak your charts to the greatest effect. This chapter is devoted to the various techniques available in Power BI Desktop to give your charts real clarity and power. Some of these enhancements apply to all chart types, whereas others are specific to a single type of chart—or even one or two chart types.

Sometimes you change the configuration of a chart—and consequently enhance it—by altering the mapping of the data to the chart elements. However, on most occasions, you enhance ...

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