Shruti on 23 Oct 2015 21:10:00
Please enable Font Color and background color in Text Box that would be very useful
Administrator on 07 Mar 2017 09:05:26
With today's release of the Power BI Desktop, you can now change the color of your font in textboxes. Read all about it in our blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-march-feature-summary/#textbox If you were looking for the background color of the textbox, you can change this in the formatting pane.
- Comments (71)
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Sadly, we've now put all our static text as images
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Come on guys...
I can't edit text color??
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
'@Mike (August 26, 2016 09:47): Agreed.
Seems to me like MSFT is more inclined to "check boxes" that they have features A, B, C and D, even though these features are not properly delivered.
Shame... But I guess this is what happens when you get rid of your QA people.
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Seriously Microsoft, you are making a fool out of yourself. Please fix this issue
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Again I am surprised this is not in there. Please add.
Not my text but I agree fully:
I think that Microsoft must spend more time on these basic, fundamentals of reporting / dashboarding. I worry that too often they spend more time chasing cool, "glitzy" functionality, at the expense of the core functionality that other products have
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Makes this useless when trying to do a black/dark background visualization. Crazy this basic option doesn't exist.
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
Work around for this is to turn on the title and type your text into that. Leave the text space blank, still not very help as changing fonts goes out the window, but for some situations this might help someone.
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
This is an important fix and should be very basic. Can\t believe that there is no way to do this now.
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
how far is this? background color is now here but not font colour.
RE: Font Color and background color in Text Box
The Text Box option in the upper ribbon is similar to those in other MS Products (Excel, PPT, Visio, Word), but is very limited in nature. One aspect of this text box that is very different is it does not allow you to change the color of the text, which is a dark grey. While you can change the background color and the Title of that block, reading this dark grey color on any but the most light backgrounds limits options for use of the text box. This seems like a basic feature to make this product like the other MS products and should be updated. Other work-arounds like adding images of text or other visualization use are more complex than just updating a text box.