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Table styling options similar to Excel

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Pedro Innecco on 27 Jan 2016 19:16:44

Hi Power BI team.

I was hoping if you could consider giving us the ability to style tables in a similar way to Excel:

* Customise header
* Format first column
* Format last column
* Banded rows
* Banded columns
* Customise footer (last/total row)

The idea is that we should be able to customise the following for the aforementioned items: background colour, foreground (font) colour, as well as the font type, size and formatting (normal, bold, italic).


We should also be able to show/hide total (last) row. At the moment it is always visible.

Some users could say the same for the header (the might have a good reason for wanting to hide the header) - but I am personally not too fussy about it.

Administrator on 02 Aug 2016 04:40:33

This is available for tables in Power BI. In the July release of Power BI Desktop, we included options for predefined table styles. You also have the option to customize the grid, format of the headers, turn on/off totals, etc. manually through the formatting pane.

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:39

RE: Table styling options similar to Excel

IS IT ME OR THIS IS NOW COMPLETED AS OF APRIL 2016? :)

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:37

RE: Table styling options similar to Excel

IS this what you have in mind? http://postimg.org/image/6vy8s9fpz/

Sorry for the duplicate. I did not find this idea at my initial search. Here is the post I did: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/11601510-table-styling-options-similar-to-excel

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:36

RE: Table styling options similar to Excel

I have uploaded a sketch of what I think would be a good interface for formatting tables, which follows the current Power BI UX: http://postimg.org/image/6vy8s9fpz/

Hope this helps!

Regards,
P.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:00:36

RE: Table styling options similar to Excel

Just like banded rows & columns are available in pivot tables in Excel, they should be available in Power View and Power BI.