10 Power BI Tips for Better Dashboards | Are you using these in your Power BI reports?

Join me in this video where I share 10 valuable tips and techniques to enhance your Microsoft Power BI reports. From formatting and organizing to boosting productivity, this video is a must-watch for anyone keen to refine their Power BI skills.

Key Highlights:
▪️ Conditional Formatting: Learn how to apply different colors to chart values based on their nature.
▪️ Aligning Objects: Tips for neatly aligning and distributing objects on your dashboard.
▪️ Measure Organization: Create a dedicated table for better measure management.
▪️ Folder Structuring: Organize measures into folders for ease of access.
▪️ Custom Backgrounds: Use PowerPoint to create custom backgrounds for a standout dashboard.
▪️ Tooltips Customization: Enhance the information displayed with customized tooltips.
▪️ Page Navigation: Add a page navigator for easy movement between report pages.
▪️ Back Button Feature: Incorporate a back button for efficient navigation.
▪️ Locking Objects: Secure your dashboard layout by locking objects in place.
▪️ PDF Export: Convert your Power BI report into a comprehensive PDF document.

In this video you'll learn the 10 best tips to create effective and beautiful Microsoft Power BI Dashboards. We're going to cover techniques for formatting, organizing, and productivity for Power BI desktop. We'll cover tips like - creating a separate measures table in Power BI, Conditionally formatting charts, adding page navigation (similar to a table of contents), using custom images in your power BI dashboard to make it look more professional, aligning objects, customizing tooltips and more.... let me know if you knew all of these or if you found something new here!

00:00 Power BI Dashboard Tips and Tricks
00:21 Conditional Formatting of Charts
01:39 Align Objects
02:39 Create Dedicated Measures Table
04:23 Organize Measures in Folders
05:07 Use Custom Images for Page Background
06:53 Customize Tooltips
09:39 Add Page Navigation
10:45 Back Button for Easier Navigation
11:18 Lock Objects in Place
11:47 Save BI Report as PDF
12:22 Wrap Up

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[leewarps]

Waiting for your full Power BI course since over a year now. No any other tutors could provide the inspiration that you do when you teach. You're a blessing. More power to you.

[swake]

My best tip for making dashboards is add a background colour, only needs to be 60-80% transparency, add it to the report page right at the very start of the process and then remove or change when complete, it helps so much for visibility of where your visual's edges are as they all have natural whitespace at the edges. I do this every time I create a new page. Also for big report packs, keep it similar, not just fonts, colours and sizes but the 'grid' you're working on, it makes it much easier on the eye. Good top 10 here though Leila. 👍

[judyl.]

1:40 #2 tip: align object.
2:40 #3 tip: organize measures.
2:55 dummy table.
4:25 #4 tip: organize with folders
5:10 #5 tip: custom images.
5:40 save as PNG file
6:30 Image fit
6:35 I don't want to have this white background.
8:35 add filter to the table.
6:55 customize the tooltips.
7:25 when you hover the bar charts, you get the additional data.
9:40 as I hover different group, it shows my choice: Top 5
9:45 #7 page navigation
10:50 #8 back button
11:20 #9 lock objects: all select - Ctrl A and view
11:50 #10 create PDF:

[cryptidcage]

Thank you for saving me me AGAIN! Getting data loaded into Power BI wasn't hard but formatting the dashboard is not as easy as one would think.

[utubeAgape]

Yay - Onto PBI now, thank you! The visuals in PBI definitely can’t be beat and are becoming the ‘go to’ in presentations of data. Love the custom tool tip instruction! Would love to see more videos about using DAX with common use-case scenarios.

[shirleysmith]

Thank you so much Leila! I'm myself an advanced report designer and never heard about Tooltips making reference to other pages, let alone that they have contextual filters. That's sooo cool!! We always learn something new from you 😎😎

[marce_f]

The tips are very very useful, but I recommend to create the background in SVG, not in PNG, because if you do zoom, you will lose image quality.

[chrism]

Super useful Leila. I definitely need to spend more time in Power BI to bring my skills on par with my Excel skills. Thanks!

[kejmil]

I knew all of them before, but it takes me a lot of time to get to know them by experience. Your movie covered it in 12 minutes! You are doing a great job, thank you, Leila! :)

[manojraghavan]

In just 10 minutes I learnt so many new hidden things! Thanks Leila.

[HeatherMajors]

Thank you Leila, I am trying to learn Power BI for work and your video is very helpful. I even recommended it to my boss :)

[marianhymiel]

You are the best tutor for power BI so far. I am new to power BI and I am so lucky to found your channel. I admire you so much Leila. I started following you since then.

[vijayarjunwadkar]

Nice tips Leila! Looking forward to more videos on Power BI, bringing the same expertise and knowledge as your Excel videos! Thank you! 😊👍

[samadaspt]

Leila gharani .. its been 3 years, i began learning from your videos, lots of love from PAKISTAN, looking forward for more videos on POWER BI

[isaacmwabila]

Your explanations are always easy to understand!
Thank you Leila!👍🏾

[osPA]

Doing the Top 5 tooltip was a WOW factor for me. Thank you so much!

[PGOManc]

Leila! You are again making a real impact! These tutorials are invaluable!
And as always....the most beautiful woman on YouTube 😍

[IndianFootsteps]

Your tips were so informative and you make it simple so everyone can understand how to use them. Thank you so much. I'm through your 1st two Power BI Videos and I really like the way you explain how to use it. I can't wait to get to the next one! Thank you so much!

[maryhelenmorales]

Wow, your videos are outstanding. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of Excel, Power BI, and Power Query. I feel funny learning so much from someone I don't even know. Again, thank you so much. Your videos are powerful and help me greatly with the work I do.

[mayaabd]

I loved the tooltip tip, can't wait to use it ! Thank you Leila 🙏🏼