Create reports and dashboards in Power BI - documentation

Power BI documentation provides expert information for creating reports, dashboards, metrics, and paginated reports.

Get started

Get Started

• Use Power BI Home
• Use the updated ribbon
• Accessibility overview

Tutorial

• From Excel to report in Power BI Desktop

sample

• Get sample data
• COVID-19 sample: US data

Visualizations

Overview

• Visualizations overview
• Visualization types

How-To Guide

• Tips & tricks for maps
• Export data from a visual
• Power Automate visual for Power BI (preview)
• Slicers

Design reports

Concept

• Report themes
• Text boxes and shapes

How-To Guide

• Conditional table formatting
• Use grouping & binning
• Add bookmarks to a report

Artificial intelligence in Power BI

Tutorial

• Anomaly detection

How-To Guide

• Generate data insights automatically
• Decomposition tree visuals
• Smart narrative visuals
• Key influencers visuals

Metrics and scorecards (preview)

Concept

• Get started with goals

How-To Guide

• Create scorecards and manual goals
• Create connected goals
• Stay on top of your goals

Design report interactions

Concept

• Report view in Power BI Desktop

How-To Guide

• Explore data with Q&A
• Use drillthrough in a report
• Add bookmarks to a report
• Format filters in a report

Natural language Q&A

Overview

• Intro to Power BI Q&A

Tutorial

• Use Q&A to explore data and create visuals

How-To Guide

• Create a Q&A visual

Power BI paginated reports

Overview

• What are Power BI paginated reports?
• Report Builder in Power BI

Training

• Online course: Paginated reports in a day

How-To Guide

• Create a report on a shared semantic model

Dashboards

Concept

• Intro to dashboards

How-To Guide

• Create a dashboard
• Pin a tile to a dashboard
• Add images or video to a dashboard