Are you using Tooltips in your Power BI Chart Headers?

One very useful, but often overlooked design feature of marketing reports is the inclusion of tooltips. Tooltips are important for several reasons:

Tooltips provide visually powerful contextual information to Power BI reports Tooltips can help provide explanation for complex logic or calculations used in Power BI reports Tooltips to can simplify navigation within your Power BI report Tooltips can be used to suggested report users to take specific actions based on the data Tooltips can help improve accessibility of your reports

Implementing tool tips simple. Just follow these steps.

1. Select the chart for which you would like to apply the tooltip.

2. On the format pane, expand the Visual Header option (make sure its turned on)

3. Scroll down to Visual Header tooltip icon option and turn this on. This will create a new menu option, "Visual Header Tooltip"

4. Expand the Visual Header tooltip option and enter your Header Tooltip!

5. Finished Product!

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