You can now set different styles for visuals

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Power BI Desktop updates for March 2025 Part two of a five-part series of blogs
These updates were announced in the dying hours of the last day of March, presumably as part of the Fabric Community conference in Las Vega. Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update You can now set different styles for visuals (this blog) Improvements to table view Shading the region above/below reference lines Enhancements for the new card visual

Power BI Desktop updates for March 2025

Part two of a five-part series of blogs

These updates were announced in the dying hours of the last day of March, presumably as part of the Fabric Community conference in Las Vega.

Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update
You can now set different styles for visuals (this blog)
Improvements to table view
Shading the region above/below reference lines
Enhancements for the new card visual

Posted by Andy Brown on 01 April 2025

For fans of themes (and you should be one of them) you can now create a range of preset styles for particular visual types:

Dropdown of preset styles for column chart

Here we've created 2 preset styles for a column chart: Owly dull and Owly exciting.

While it's a good idea to create themes for Power BI Desktop - and doing so for your organisation will ultimately save huge amounts of time - the learning curve involved is steep!

Before you can add preset styles for particular visuals to a theme, you first need to create the JSON file for one (here's a good way to do this). You can then edit the JSON file generated:

The red box contains a name and settings for your default theme for a column chart; the green boxes contain the details of two custom preset styles.

Here are the preset styles that the above will create for column charts:

Preset style	What it will do
stylePreset	Show the chart legend at the bottom right
Owly exciting	Show the legend at bottom centre and change the value axis gridline colours (not that exciting, perhaps)
Owly dull	Change the value axis gridline colours

What this shows is that while it's easy to understand the principles involved in creating preset styles, getting the syntax right is another thing altogether.

Note that preset styles are part of a theme, so if you change the theme for a report you'll lose the preset styles.

Parts of this blog
Changes for the March 2025 Power BI update You can now set different styles for visuals (this blog) Improvements to table view Shading the region above/below reference lines Enhancements for the new card visual