From the course: Power BI Data Visualization and Dashboard Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Navigate the format and analysis panes

Navigate the format and analysis panes

- [Instructor] Now we're going to look at the Visualization pane in detail. You can't make a report beautiful without it. These tabs are context-dependent. As we have no visual selected at the moment, we can see Data View, which is the default, the one that we are on, and Page Format View. Now, by the way, dragging and dropping some data into this Values data well down here will create a visual. Power BI does its best to interpret the data, so you don't always have to begin by picking the visual first. Now, we've got no visual selected. And when we go to Page format, you can change certain things about the actual canvas, and lots of people don't really realize that this is here. So we could change the color, for example, which doesn't appear to have done anything, but that's because we've got transparency of 100%. There we go, a really rather bright, perhaps too bright, orange color. And this is quite useful. You can change the text, for example, the font for your Filter pane. So…

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