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Format a chart in a paginated report (Power BI Report Builder)

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After you've defined the data for your Power BI paginated report chart and it is appearing the way you want, you can add formatting to improve the overall appearance and highlight key data points. The most common formatting options can be modified from the Properties dialog box, which you see when you right-click a chart element to display its shortcut menu. Each chart element has its own dialog box. For more information about chart elements, see Charts (Power BI Report Builder).

All properties that relate to the chart are located in the Properties pane, but you can set many of these properties from a dialog box. If you are formatting the series, you can specify series-specific properties using custom attributes, which can only be found in the CustomAttributes category of properties, located in the Properties pane.

To effectively format the chart using a minimal number of steps, change the default border style, palette and drawing style. These three features produce the largest visible change on the chart. Drawing styles are only applicable to pie, doughnut, bar and column charts.

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Format series colors on a chart (Power BI Report Builder)
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Format axis labels on a chart (Power BI Report Builder)
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Format the legend on a chart (Power BI Report Builder)
Discusses how to re-order and format items in the chart legend.

Format data points on a chart (Power BI Report Builder)
Discusses how to position data point labels and format data point markers for every series on the chart.

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Add a border frame to a chart (Power BI Report Builder)
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