Power BI – Using Visuals (2026)

By using Power BI visualizations, you can present your data in a way that is easy to understand.

In this course, Microsoft Trainer Kathy Snizaski explains the categories of visuals available and how to select the correct visualizations for different purposes. She’ll also show you how to find and download additional visualization options. You’ll learn how to build and format custom visualizations that communicate data effectively, and how to manually group data so you can control the view.

She’ll also show you how to use Power BI’s formatting options to make your reports more readable, and how to apply filters and slicers to narrow down the fields in your visualizations and reports. By applying conditional formatting and drill-through pages, you and your users will be able to see trends and related data. Kathy will also show you how to add further analysis from the analytics pane and use AI visuals in a report.

Topics covered include:

• Define the purpose of different visuals
• Build visualizations
• Format visuals to improve readability
• Insert and format pages in a report
• Insert and format static objects
• Add custom visuals
• Group fields and edit groups on a visualization
• Apply basic, advanced, and Top N filters on visualizations and pages
• Build, format, and sync slicers
• Add conditional formatting to a visual
• Create bookmarks and add them to buttons
• Create a drill-through page with drill-through buttons
• Use the analytics pane
• Add AI visuals to a report

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