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on 10 Jan 2017 03:12:48

Give users the ability to set a theme (either an out-of-the-box or custom theme) as their default for all reports created in Power BI Desktop.

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A dedicated place to set defaults for all Power Bi visuals. If I always want my titles to be 15pt font, and my general font to be 12 pt, I currently have to set on each visual.

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on 18 Apr 2022 21:17:33

RE: Set default theme

As an administrator of the system, allow setting standard corporate themes to all users, including for Desktop version.

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Oakley Turvey on 26 Feb 2022 11:29:06

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Why can't Power BI just let us edit the 'Default' Theme? If this was possible it would solve so many problems like the default text being too small. What a waste of time to have to change it every time for every visual.People have different ideas of what looks right for them and should be able to customise defaults...like they can in every other program...

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David Bové Villadsen on 16 Feb 2021 12:43:09

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+1!
Would greatly help to provide consistency throughout the whole organization. Changes in theme would not have to be announced, it would just happen.

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Luiza Oancea on 20 Oct 2020 08:41:02

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Yes please, we are already able to do this with Power BI embedded. We should be able to change the default theme for the organization, maybe at a workspace level and at an organization level. And when creating a report in PBI Desktop, when you are logged in with your organizational account, the organizational theme should be automatically applied.

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Chris Kelley on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:54

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We have established brand standards for fonts and colors. Manually having to change dashboards so they have a consistent look is time-consuming and error-prone.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:49

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Please yes, include this. My company has branding guidelines and changing the font where it occurs in each visual is burdensome.

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:40

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This would be extremely useful. My native language has accented latin characters In the current default font they do not exist. So I end up with oversized accented characters on every new visual. Having ability to change the default would be amazing. Or simply MS could change that default DIN family, which is terribly poor... Or include accented characters into it. Calibri font has them covered well...

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Rado on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:24

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or across all workspaces

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Mohamed Afsaruddin on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:14

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I concur with the sentiments/feedback from my peers on this topic. We currently have the ability for the custom theme/fonts for our corporate standard to work on the Power BI Desktop which does not work on the Power BI cloud service even though we have purchased Premium Capacity to allow for some customizations.

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OM on 06 Jul 2020 00:10:00

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Most PBI Users work for a company. Many companies have Brand Standards that require certain fonts, colors, etc. to be used. I'm very surprised that this isn't yet a capability with PBI to set defaults. It would make it so much easier for Users to align with their company's standards without having to individually change each and every visual.

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