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Power BI Desktop Update - April 2022 Part two of a two-part series of blogs
A small update this month, with the main change being the addition of a few formatting options for matrices and chart legends. Power BI Desktop Update - April 2022 Improvements to formatting for matrices and legends (this blog) We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

Power BI Desktop Update - April 2022

Part two of a two-part series of blogs

A small update this month, with the main change being the addition of a few formatting options for matrices and chart legends.

Power BI Desktop Update - April 2022
Improvements to formatting for matrices and legends (this blog)

We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

Posted by Andy Brown on 20 April 2022

In this blog

More powerful matrix borders
Different formatting for row and column grand totals
Two new legend positions

Improvements to formatting for matrices and legends

The new formatting toolbar in Power BI is still in preview, but it will enter general release next month (and because it's been turned on by default since February, you're almost certainly already using it). In addition to fixing a number of bugs and omissions, Microsoft have rolled out 3 improvements.

More powerful matrix borders

You can now set top, bottom, right or left borders for the column header, row header and values section of a matrix separately:

This unpleasant matrix has a red border all the way round the column headers, a green border to the left and right of the row headers and a dark blue border above and below the values section.

Here are the new settings for changing matrix borders: