5 DESIGN TRICKS that Make EVERY Power BI Report Look GREAT!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

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[@paulgallagher2987]

Watching your videos has massivley raised my report design game over the past year. Thanks so much Bas.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

that's awesome 😎😊 very happy to hear that my videos helped a bit!

[@ThatAalsiFitGuy]

Can you tell me how did he got that green colour?

[@mgcchkn]

You are definitely the best Power BI KZbinr I've found! All your videos are great and flow really well. I've seen lots of people that have good info, but their presentation skills are lacking, or vice/versa. You combine info and presentation skills equally at an expert level. Keep up the great work!

[@Alexa_Eordogh]

100 % agree!

[@gmlobo]

Great video, for the alignment and distribution, like power point, Power BI has a tool to equally distribute and align these forms. Select the forms > Arrange > Align > Distribute Horizontally

[@martinbubenheimer6289]

Very nicely done. One idea for usability of reports that are used in meetings: It might make sense to use colors for categories that can clearly and easily be named without confusing it with other colors. Otherwise discussions might go like: "Can you explain that small dark turquoise section?" - "You mean this one?" - "No, not the cadet blue one. The slightly darker one." - "That one?" - "No, that's the dark sea green one." - "What!?" 😂

[@anteep4900]

yep 100%, practicality over style... doesn't mean you can't make nicer looking dashboards tho

[@IslamWay_80]

The best PBI videos I've ever seen. Thank you so much.

[@PhilcoCup]

the technique at 7:10 might be good for when you are trying to group several visuals together, however nowadays I just use padding to create the same effect (plus less objects to compete for processing). I find that 15-20px padding looks quite nice in a lot of ocassions.

[@yngwie1908]

You are heaven sent. I am currently working on embedding a power BI report to a data entry power app. This generally helps me blend the look of my report to my power app. Good work here! 🎉

[@johnskilly]

Man! The more I learn about Power Bi the more I see how many basic things it lacks. Considering it´s something that been around for years, I can´t get my head around it. It should be called Workaround BI

[@HowtoPowerBI]

lol 😅 .. yea also don't get why some things like padding are not there .. but it is still doing a good job compared to most other "self-service bi tools" .. and over time I guess they will add those little annoying things are missing at the moment

[@johnskilly]

@@HowtoPowerBI also not to mention colours on charts changing when uploaded to the service. But that aside, thank you for your videos. Without them I´d be lost on some of these topics.

[@JamiAU]

Haha what I learned is PowerBi is just a Pivot table on steroids. And my design problem is the opposite of this 😂 I made an awesome dark theme dashboard, but the bosses want white backgrounds☠️

[@paddy1144]

This guy should have so many more subscribers, the content is amazing and this series has been great so far

[@arnaldosandoval453]

The challenge is that so many people are creating content that it is harder to find the good ones! How to Power BI is fantastic.

[@shivamkapoor1827]

How to change color of plus icon of matrix visual which appears when we drag more than one field in row lables?

[@abhishekstatus_7]

Watching your videos , keeps me changing the report designs to make it more better and cooler and insightfull and customers are loving it more the way the new reports looks like , They are always like wooooow... So Thank you very very much :)

[@jordancarbone3474]

When I copy and paste the screenshot of my power bi report into powerpoint it is much smaller than the powerpoint slide itself. If I scale the screenshot to the size of the powerpoint slide it throws off all of the ratios for reapplying this back to power bi. Can you further explain this step and how you size the screenshot from power bi into powerpoint? Thanks!

[@johnfraser7540]

@HowtoPowerBI brilliant set of tricks, as a Product Owner and not a PowerBI user at all, I followed these and the difference is incredible, the reports now look sharp, modern, well laid out, aligned etc. Really useful!

[@keagankemp6275]

Wow, watched many videos and only after this one do I feel confident enough to do it. Thanks Bas

[@cristinaandone7969]

Ok I didn't know what to expect when I clicked on the video but this was AWESOME!

[@franciscogarcia4844]

Thanks is amazing. What program do you use to record the screen?

[@Олександр-т1г123]

Дякую, дуже цікава і корисна інформація :)

[@AshishJainPune]

I have started taking my Power BI report designs to the next level all because of the design ideas and trips and tricks from your videos. Thanks a lot for it. Is there a way you can also share the powerpoint slide from this video?

[@ThumperseedBabylon]

Just listening to your voice makes me want to learn about powerbi

[@harithdias1]

Hi. What is your canvas size on this dashboard? The height and width?

[@falconrushgaming]

Just got myself a Kudos for this from my manager!!! Thanks a lot mannn!!!!

[@TheVineVerse]

Thanks MAte really Helped❤❤

[@datactive859]

Thanks for such a brainstorm. After years of Power BI using, I figure out how to customize my own theme in the app TODAY

[@holla4691]

Thank you for an excellent video Bas! These tricks make the visualizations look so much better. I really appreciate your hard work and effort in delivering us these diamonds of knowledge. Also, your delivery on different topics is refreshing. Keep up the great work.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Appreciate it!!! Definitely will 😊

[@MargaretEfron]

How did you import the PowerPoint back into Power BI? The part at 17:00 went much too fast for me :(

[@nessalkdarb]

@5:24 padding and margins are in fact available options for formatting a visual, you just have to switch to general rather than visual.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

It is a video from a few years ago when those weren’t options yet ;)

[@בנציוןשמואלחקק-ק1ל]

Thank you this is realy great. you are so skillfull. but Curious to know how did you made this PowerPoint style can you shre details.

[@demitredacol]

Thanks for sharing you knowledge. I've watched a loot of your videos and it made me go to the next level.

[@Bshsug]

can someone let me know how can we get that color with the faded effect at 14:59 and 15:07 in powerpoint?

[@louism.4980]

This is fantastic, thank you Bas! :)

[@sarveshdeshpande1772]

You are formatting king Bas !!!! Simply awesome ✌️

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thanks a ton Sarvesh, nice to hear that! 😊

[@matthewhawkshaw3600]

Love the simple design tips! Be careful using background images as it often breaks the accessible colour modes (I believe - unless it’s been fixed recently). Won’t always be critical depending on your audience and how your reports are used.

[@greenc1088]

can anyone confirm if this is still a problem? because I've used images

[@adityaprakash9151]

Can we use if while creating field ? Different fields depend on countries ?

[@elijahd.spragueph.d8905]

Did you use the snip it tool for your screen shot when transferring to power point. I'm concerned with pixel ratios.

[@oscarm8987]

Instead of creating "white space" by adding rectangles, you can just add some padding to the visual. Great video!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

True… it was not the case when then video was created 🫣

[@GeoffreyLawhorn]

These simple designs go a long way! Concepts that everyone can follow without even being particularly well-versed in Power BI.

[@Fsgh_7]

Many thank for valuable information always 🎖 I've a small problem that I made my own theme in power bi with font that isn't in program, then when I published it doesn't came the same, is there any way before to save same theme when publishe? or would you think if I can fix it on the Embedded online with Java?

[@paulrockliffe2378]

I think trick number 6 would be to set the Report Wallpaper to match or contrast so it stays looking nice, but then Step 7 would be to make sure your App colours are set to match too. Then you remember that you can't set custom colours in your App and it all falls down! It's worth bearing in mind that you might want to constrain your design choices so they still work really well wherever the report ends up being embedded, Teams, Sharepoint, the PowerBI App, Report Service and Apps all wrap slightly different stuff around your design. The lack of Custom App colours really annoys me!

[@SSRealEstates83]

It's amazing...I almost got the output...but facing a small road block. On the bar chart the product id is coming but...the I'd is getting add a 1 number to it... example...if the I'd 100 ....on the y axis it is showing 100 ...but on the bar chart it is showing 101....plz help...thanks in advance...this question is related to slicer video

[@rawwwr19]

Thanks a lot! Especially for alignment tips. I was struggling on how to prepare layout for visuals to make report look nice. Now I can do it in PowerBi.

[@lucaslive2010]

Your content is amazing man! I always improve my projects using what I have learned from you.

[@abararahmed9402]

1st time here.. and like, commented and subscribed

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Welcome aboard! 🎉🎉🎉😁

[@AHGAMBI]

The formatting tab has the Align button that lets you do automatic distribution to get even spacing either horizontally or vertically.

[@nhungphan397]

I don't know how this report will look like if we open it in another screen size. As you created it by making a screen capture and created dark slots to put graph inside. So when we open in another screen like desk monitor, these dark slots can be expanded more horzontally and your graph can go out of these slots?

[@GabrielNguyen]

You're genius. Nice teaching technique, it's very understandable. Thank you!

[@ajibolaabdulfatai1252]

Damn! That was so beautiful but you failed to show us how you made the background design in PowerPoint. Please kindly make a video of that as part 1 and this as part 2.

[@toughmanful]

Amazing, I have been searching for something like this for few days now. Thanks a ton!!!

[@janeqin6130]

I think I need a tutorial on how to use power point to create the very beautiful background image... that looks so nice!

[@PranayPawar1991]

Nice video. But what is the page size you kept at the start??

[@Ragnar67]

Hi, great video, i love your work ! whats your canvas setting please ? doesnt not look like you are using standard 16:9

[@QasimAli-zb1lo]

you are a TALENT person

[@nielsverwoerd9499]

Thx Bas bc of your tips my report Got a gradepoint higher because of the great design!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

🚀🚀🚀 🤓💻 awesome

[@hammer2k7]

Hi, when I tried publishing the powerbi report with the SVG as the background, I found most of the visuals were misaligned eventhough they looked ok in Power bi desktop. Any thoughts?

[@iamfritzpascual]

how come its different in my dashboard all the menus and options that you are using are not in my powerbi app / desktop?

[@peterrender4716]

Really excellent presentation and content (particularly in the way you explain each step - as in other videos). For me, the most difficult part is grabbing and sizing the individual visuals and placeholders which then always seem to change size/ go out of line. I wondered if you had any tips for making this easier?

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

For the extra space around the border, at the same colour as the background it borders, you can simply add "padding" in the visuals settings. Make your box the desired size, and then define the padding as however many pixels you want. Your way is good for adding a border of another colour though.

[@HowtoPowerBI]

The video has been recorded when the padding formatting option didnt exist yet

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@@HowtoPowerBI I was wondering if that was the case when I noticed the video was a year old :p Cheers for the tip though, I did just use it to put a nice thick coloured border around a graph :)

[@s-b6218]

Thanks for tips. Time to show off at work

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Let‘s go!!!!

[@ChromaticSnap]

How can have my pubish web page bi report to use entire bowser screen .. when I am using fit to page its looks good the the desktop app but in browser it's cropped from left and right.

[@faisalmahmood5278]

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work.Well done!👍👍

[@pravinshingadia7337]

You are awesome. I’m addicted to your videos

[@monster3bod]

I had huge data and i want to see all sata related with it in a table how can i see all

[@ravikasturi7239]

This is awesome!! Curious to know if there are any tricks for PowerPoint style transformations to show/hide in Power BI

[@pritikulkarni2656]

Brilliant video.. it helped me alot

[@BigBoomOfDoom2]

Just found this channel, now subscribed. I've got some studying to do! Thanks very much, this was a great video.

[@tushardesai4966]

How do we highlight particular item in bar graph?

[@dansval]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@tomerweil]

Thanks a lot for the video. Regarding the rounded corners, do you do it on the white space boxes around the visualz, or on the visualz themselves?

[@r0b1]

Background topic. My Page was set 1440x2560p. After printscreen, i paste in PowerPoint, but how to set the Page dimension? Only can set width and height in cm. After all not fitting in my power bi Page. 😢

[@rosembergrivera809]

This video is so useful! It´s hard for me thinking about improve charts and combine colors, and so on. Thanks!

[@Chime-In-CelebQuotes]

Thank you, bas you are the best .. today, i learned something new 😊

[@ethanblackthorn3533]

Amazing stuff. Thank you!

[@hansgettheflammenwerfer69420]

Hey man, new to your channel but I wanted to say. Your content, your presentation, your production value, its all top tier. You do individual consultancy right?

[@keidran_r3]

is that really advisable for making a portfolio in data analytics?

[@nickvanoort9609]

Love this! Since a few months I've started watching your video's and all of them are usefull for me. Keep it up Bas!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

great to hear that! definitely will 😊 and thanks for watching

[@brianligat9493]

How can you copy a canvas/background to other pages?

[@manwinsingh7381]

How can i get or make that neon sprayed image

[@anetak6014]

How did you do the green background in Power Point?

[@AlexGonzalez-mj1wd]

Thank you!

[@Nikhilmandekar]

Awesome. Very useful video. 👍

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad it was helpful! thank you Nikhil

[@Marina-jv4dw]

It's awesome job! I very like ,how you create design reports!!!🤩👍👍👍

[@rezatalaneh]

Great! Thanks for sharing this excellent technique.

[@SilvanoMarrone76]

Wonderful! You are an artist in modeling dashboards. Well done!!!

[@judekayode926]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Totally love it.

[@StephenBrincat]

Thanks for such interesting video. What is the ideal canvas size?

[@saadwagle1032]

How to select more than one data and do changes?

[@aartdevletter5822]

When I try to round corners WITH a shadow, in the end result u do still see some kind of corner because of the shadow. Known problem? What am I doing wrong?

[@KhaNguyen-rq5xy]

Sir, May I ask why my PowerBI page have the smaller size width than yours? I just have around 1200 width. Thank you Sir

[@aminedj430]

truly learnt a lot from you will apply this to my next project

[@ihgamingfun6295]

Very nice bro ...carry on..👌👌👍

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Thx ☺️ 100% 😎🔥

[@RMS-k9x]

Hey! Thanks for the video. I can't follow along though since the files aren't in the link in the description. I've signed up but am waiting for the email ;(

[@HowtoPowerBI]

download link is in the description. I've checked the file, all is fine - so not sure where you go wrong

[@shamf6624]

great designing tricks especially the power point one. while i have been creating the very simple ones, what you showed is beyond what i thought. thankyou for sharing :)

[@lorrytang3337]

love your video... thank you so much for making this tutorial!!

[@aishaalqahtani4552]

amazing Sir, thank you very much, helped me a lot

[@HowtoPowerBI]

Glad to hear that

[@BsQuickfixDeliciousrecipes]

Hi I love your channel! I need help! my end users want daily reports subscription with day filter like every end of that day they want only that report after data refresh is it possible with subscription??

[@nafeesahmed2642]

Simply awesome

[@SunilMathewMusic]

Brilliant Stuff Mate 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻 Love the tutorial & the design!

[@FranciscoVelazquezGimenez]

This was great! Amazing explanation, thank you so much, I subbed!

[@ExcelTutorials1]

Dude, I love these tips. Very very helpful!!

[@shalom1070]

Love this video! This is what I needed for the day! Thanks!

[@HowtoPowerBI]

thx :)