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Changes introduced in the March 2023 Power BI Update Part two of a five-part series of blogs
This month's update is impressive - including visual subtitles, a button action to clear and apply slicers and a new PowerPoint story-telling feature - but it's the on-object interaction in preview which will truly change your life. Changes introduced in the March 2023 Power BI Update You can now add subtitles, dividers and spacing to titles (this blog) New buttons for applying and clearing all slicers PowerPoint story-telling using Power BI visuals The Formatting Pane looks different We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

Changes introduced in the March 2023 Power BI Update

Part two of a five-part series of blogs

This month's update is impressive - including visual subtitles, a button action to clear and apply slicers and a new PowerPoint story-telling feature - but it's the on-object interaction in preview which will truly change your life.

Changes introduced in the March 2023 Power BI Update
You can now add subtitles, dividers and spacing to titles (this blog)
New buttons for applying and clearing all slicers
PowerPoint story-telling using Power BI visuals
The Formatting Pane looks different

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 30 March 2023

In this blog

Subtitles
Divider lines
Spacing

You can now add subtitles, dividers and spacing to titles

There are several new options for visual titles!

You can now add a subtitle and a divider to a title and change the spacing for the various title components, as explained below.

Subtitles

The new Subtitle card allows you to specify an additional row in your visual's title:

You can change the same things as for a title ... almost (for some reason you can't have a subtitle background colour which is different from your title background colour).

Here's an example of a subtitle:

You can use a subtitle to add additional information about the visual.

Divider lines

A divider line separates a visual's title from the rest of the chart:

If you unset Ignore padding, your divider line will not quite stretch to the edges of your visual. The rest of the options are pretty self-explanatory!

Here's what the above dividing line would look like:

The dividing line is the horizontal red line separating the title/subtitle from the rest of the visual.

Spacing

Finally, here's what the Spacing formatting card looks like:

You can control three vertical distances.

Here's what each of the properties changes:

Strangely, you don't seem to be able to increase any of the spacings above 10 pixels.

A welcome new change, although some of the restrictions mentioned above seem a bit arbitrary.

Parts of this blog
Changes introduced in the March 2023 Power BI Update You can now add subtitles, dividers and spacing to titles (this blog) New buttons for applying and clearing all slicers PowerPoint story-telling using Power BI visuals The Formatting Pane looks different