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What's new in the July 2023 Power BI update Part three of a four-part series of blogs
The July update contains smoothed and leader lines for charts, which are very welcome, but on-object interaction remains elusively stuck in preview ... Summary of what's new in the July 2023 Power BI Update Smoothed lines for charts Leader lines for charts (this blog) On-object interaction (quick formatting) We've been creating our idiosyncratic monthly blogs on Power BI updates since November 2016, and also deliver online and classroom Power BI courses.

What's new in the July 2023 Power BI update

Part three of a four-part series of blogs

The July update contains smoothed and leader lines for charts, which are very welcome, but on-object interaction remains elusively stuck in preview ...

Summary of what's new in the July 2023 Power BI Update
Smoothed lines for charts
Leader lines for charts (this blog)
On-object interaction (quick formatting)

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 25 July 2023

Leader lines for charts

The easiest way to explain what leader lines are is to show an example!

Leader lines are the lines between data points on a line or area chart and their data labels.

Here's how to set leader lines for data labels:

See below for why you might want to set a minimum label offset too.

For the chart in this example, the leader lines don't show up unless you set a minimum label offset (otherwise Power BI just puts the data labels right next to their respective data points, and no leader lines are needed!).

Parts of this blog
Summary of what's new in the July 2023 Power BI Update Smoothed lines for charts Leader lines for charts (this blog) On-object interaction (quick formatting)