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Do even more by configuring charts

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Do even more by configuring charts

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- [Instructor] Configuring a Power BI chart is quite straightforward, but it certainly helps to know where to look. To follow along, have the exercise file open for this movie. What you're looking at is the backbone of a Power BI dashboard for an e-commerce business. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not a massive fan of the default color scheme here. We could manually start changing the formatting of every chart element using the formatting options here, but luckily, there's a much easier way. From the menu, let's go ahead and select view, and you'll see a section called Themes. If we click on the dropdown arrow here, you'll notice that there's quite a few in-built color themes that we can choose from. And in fact, you can even import themes from elsewhere, say, to keep consistent with your organization's style guide. But for now, let's keep things quite simple. The one that I'm going to work with is called Colorblind safe. Now, we could always stop here as things are looking…

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