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Shruti on 23 Oct 2015 21:10:00

Please enable Font Color and background color in Text Box that would be very useful

Administrator on 07 Mar 2017 09:05:26

With today's release of the Power BI Desktop, you can now change the color of your font in textboxes. Read all about it in our blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-march-feature-summary/#textbox If you were looking for the background color of the textbox, you can change this in the formatting pane.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:22

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

how far is this? background color is now here but not font colour.

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Sean Marshall on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:01

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

The Text Box option in the upper ribbon is similar to those in other MS Products (Excel, PPT, Visio, Word), but is very limited in nature. One aspect of this text box that is very different is it does not allow you to change the color of the text, which is a dark grey. While you can change the background color and the Title of that block, reading this dark grey color on any but the most light backgrounds limits options for use of the text box. This seems like a basic feature to make this product like the other MS products and should be updated. Other work-arounds like adding images of text or other visualization use are more complex than just updating a text box.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:42

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Please include in the next update!

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Mike Honey on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:38

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Great analogy Pedro.

What does it say about their prioritization process when something so fundamental, that would seem to be so trivial to fix has been ignored in about 6 monthly releases now ...

There are many inconsistencies in the Formatting capabilities of visuals that are similar to this issue, but this is surely the most obvious.

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:38

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

This is what happens when you disband the QA team: An obvious functionality is left out and now we need to vote to get it in...

Imaging having a radio that is always tuned to one station, and that is "by design". If you wish to have the ability to change stations: keep voting ;)

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Tim on 05 Jul 2020 22:25:18

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

This is a basic requirement for a text box...please make this change ASAP!

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shekhar on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:59

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Not sure if they forgot to add this feature. I was surprised when I changed the background of textbox to black and font colour was not changeable.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:24:54

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Wow, how seriously can we take this supposed to be awesome tool when we can't even set a font color? Absolutely ridiculous.

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Dave DuVarney on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:40

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Had to use the Title of the text box as a work around. However, that doesn't help when you want to add larger blocks to text to a dark background

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bon on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:31

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

This is so fundamental a need, and lack of response makes is hard to take this iterative process serious...seriously?