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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.

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On-object | Public Preview (Opt-in)

Introducing On-object! The new way to build and format your visuals. We’ve heard time and again from our user research studies PBI desktop is hard to use. We’ve also seen countless new users struggle to navigate our UI to perform simple actions such as completely missing the fields pane all the way on the right side of the screen, unable to add data to the correct field wells, fishing around the format pane to rename, change colors, or format text styles of their visual. These same users instinctively right-click on areas of the visual expecting a menu to help. Aligning to our new “Office-like” strategy we bring you, on object. A new way to build and format visuals directly on the visual.

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Power BI and PowerPoint: A Powerful Combination for Data Visualization is now generally available

We are happy to announce the general availability of Power BI integration with PowerPoint. This integration makes presentations more engaging and informative by allowing users to create rich, interactive visualizations that can be embedded in PowerPoint slides. The is now available also in national clouds. The integration has also added new features such as the ability to use a single visual, leverage Smart Insights to generate text that summarizes the data in the slide, and a “What’s new” banner to keep users informed of new capabilities.

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