Power BI report and dashboard creation documentation

Learn how to create compelling reports in Power BI using visuals, AI, filters, and formatting. Explore tutorials, samples, and best practices.

Get started creating reports

Overview

• Use Power BI Home
• Use the updated ribbon

Quickstart

• Create a report from Excel

Design and format your reports

How-To Guide

• Use grouping and binning
• Add custom format strings
• Add filters to a report
• Use dynamic format strings
• Show items with no data
• Add hyperlinks to tables
• Add images to tables
• Use sparklines in tables
• Personalize visuals
• Use slicers with hierarchies

Use AI and Copilot to enhance reports

Concept

• Generate insights automatically

How-To Guide

• Use Copilot to create a report
• Use Copilot to evaluate data
• Use Copilot prompts for report pages
• Use Copilot prompts for narratives

Explore report samples

sample

• Financial sample
• Sales and marketing sample
• Human resources sample
• Artificial intelligence sample
• Store sales sample
• Customer profitability sample
• Retail analysis sample
• Competitive marketing analysis sample
• Regional sales sample
• Procurement sample

Tutorial

• Tutorial: Connect to the samples
• Tutorial: Decomposition tree

Improve dashboards with tiles and themes

How-To Guide

• Design tips for dashboards
• Pin live tiles from reports
• Edit dashboard tiles
• Copy dashboards