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4. Default Visual Styles

Adam Aspin1  
(1)
STAFFORD, UK
 

The next step in defining core Power BI dashboard formatting is to configure a set of high-level presentation elements that can cover the majority of the formatting requirements of dashboard visuals. This will ensure that much (although possibly not all) of the essential formatting of a dashboard is carried out simply through applying a JSON theme file. This is a practical application of the so-called 80/20 rule – where 80% of the formatting work can be done generically, leaving the rest to be formatted manually.

In practice, ...

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