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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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JC on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:16

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

I just wanted to add my support to this request. If we can get that in before I have to do a demo this afternoon, that would be fantastic. =)

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:15

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

As noted by many people here, textbox needs formatting tools, it is simply a waste when we have dark background.

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Daniel (Australia) on 05 Jul 2020 22:23:07

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

I don't understand why this is so difficult ?

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Doug Smith on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:35

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

I dance around this using images of text in photoshop. It makes my report have to be manually updated. This has to be less than 30 minutes of engineering work. Please fix this.

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mary on 05 Jul 2020 22:21:07

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

It's odd that it's not already there?

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Merijn Campsteyn on 05 Jul 2020 22:20:14

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

This is indeed a basic need. Can't understand why this is missing

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Deren on 05 Jul 2020 22:19:15

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

If you are using the text box for title, there is a quick workaround. Insert a text box, don't write anything, select the box and click the "Title" in visualization pane, write your title there, increase font size and change color. The problem is, there is probably a word limit and also you can't change the font.

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ben.jenkins on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:55

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Please add the option to change the color of text. As others have said, this like a very basic expectation.

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Nick on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:24

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Please update!!! makes the text box useless if you have a dark background!

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Guru Dayal Roy on 05 Jul 2020 22:17:29

RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box

Text Box control does not contain font color setting. It will be great if we can change the font color and face.