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Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

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Robert Duke on 30 Sep 2015 05:45:30

Allow for the creation of a corporate color theme pack. Same principle of styles in Excel: I define a set of styles (colors, fonts, background, format,...) and apply to my report items. For example, let me set the default slicer background color to a suitable shade so that all slicer created start with my default color settings. I would also like to be able to save me color scheme separately so that i can share it with colleagues to create a consistent feel.

Administrator on 09 Aug 2018 03:45:38

Thanks everyone for the votes for theming! This month we finally made our report theming feature generally available: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-2018-feature-summary/#Theming Of course, we will continue to iterate and improve on the feature, like we do all our features, so please propose new ideas if there's something specific you'd like us to add.

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Collins on 05 Jul 2020 22:11:20

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

I think another work around, could be creating a 'baseline' report having the required look and feel requirements and subsequent reports could then be created off this this report (‘template layout report’).

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:23

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

This feature has been around forever in Word and PowerPoint. Would be great to see it available in Power BI to quickly skin / re-skin entire reports.
The current individual color control is great but way too time-consuming to apply to a whole report or set of reports.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:23

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

I am finding the same issue. I have many slides in which variables and names constantly have different colors. Very annoying and long process to change

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Bobby on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:58

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

Default colors in power bi desktop are really dull, but the color picker shows colors that are too bright. We need a better control of color scheme and a wider range of darker colors in the picker. I have been searching colors in html format and pasting them in to the picker, but it is time consuming.

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Martijn on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:46

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

In the new PowerBI Desktop colour function, it is not possible to link the colours to each individual legend (E.g Brands) to all charts. Currently this colour application must be done on each chart’s legend separately per brand. Can we create a function that applies the chosen legend colours to all charts in all worksheets?

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cg on 05 Jul 2020 22:01:04

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

'+1

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Ivan on 05 Jul 2020 22:00:19

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

Agree.. The limited control in theming and color is a huge shortcoming compared to comepetetive offerings like Tableau.

also, Please consider support for:

Power pivot datasources in BI designer.
Refreshing Datasources in Power BI

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Firdous Shamsudeen on 05 Jul 2020 21:57:08

RE: Allow the creation of a Theme Pack

Right now Color theme is getting changed for the entire excel workbook. But user should be able to change the theme for individual power view sheets of the workbook