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Format Line Chart in Power BI

by suresh

How to Format Line Chart in Power BI with an example?. Formatting Power BI Line Chart includes changing the Line Colors, Title text, Title position, Axis Details, Data labels, and background Images, etc.

To demonstrate these Power BI Line Chart formatting options, we use the Line Chart that we created earlier. Please refer to the Power BI Line Chart article.

How to Format Line Chart in Power BI

Please click on the Format button to see the list of formatting options that are available for this Line Chart.

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Format Line Chart General Settings

Use this General Section to Change the X, Y position, Width, and height of a Line Chart

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Format Legend of a Line Chart in Power BI

To display or enable the Legend, Please select the Power BI Legend region and toggle the option from Off to On. Use the Position drop down box to change the legend position.

As you can see, we added the Legend Title as Money, Legend Position as Top Center. And we also changed the Color to Brick Red, Font family to Georgia, and text size to 20.

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Format X-Axis of a Line Chart in Power BI

The following are the list of options that are available for you to format the Horizontal axis or X-Axis. As you can see from the screenshot below, we change the Color to Dark Grey, Font style to Candara, Text Size to 12.

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By default, the X-Axis title set to Off, but you can enable it by toggling Title to On. Let me change the Title Color to Green, Font style to Georgia, and Font Size to 20.

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Format Y-Axis of a Power BI Line Chart

The following are the list of options that are available for you to format the Vertical axis or Y-Axis. From the screenshot below, you can see we change the Y-Axis labels Color to Dark Grey, Text Size to 15, Font style to Candara.

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Let me change the Scale type to Log. From the below screenshot, you can see that it is displaying the Log scale.

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By default, the Y-Axis title set to Off, but you can enable it by toggling Title under the Y-Axis section to On. Let me change the Title Color to Green, Title Text Size to 20, and Font family corbel.

By toggling the Gridlines option from On to Off, you can disable the Line Chart Gridlines.

  • Color: You can change the Gridlines color.
  • Stroke Width: Use this to change the Gridlines width. Here, we changed the width from default 1 to 2 strokes.
  • Line Style: Choose the line style such as Solid, dotted, and dashed.
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Format Power BI Line Chart Data Colors

By default, Line chart will display with default colors. Let me change the Sales Amount Line color to Brick Red, and Total Product Cost color to Green.

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Format Data Labels of a Line Chart in Power BI

Data Labels display the Metric or Value information (Sales Amount at each point) about the Line. I don’t think you require Data Labels for the Trends, but you have an option.

As you can see from the below screenshot, we enabled it to display the properties.

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Format Line Chart in Power BI Shapes

Use this section to change the Line Strokes, or joining.

As you see from the below, we changed the Stroke Width (Line width) to 4, marker Shape (Shape at the joining Point) as Diamond, and Marker size as 8.

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Whatever the changes you make in the above step reflect on both the Lines. But, you have an option called Customize Series, and if you enable this option, you can customize individual Line.

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Format Line Chart Plot Area

You can add Images as the Background of a Line Chart using this Plot Area section. For the demonstration purpose, we added one image as the Plot Area Background.

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Format Power BI Line Chart Title

By toggling the Title option from On to Off, you can disable the title of a Line Chart.

As you can see from the below screenshot, we change the Title Text to Sale Amount and Total Product Cost by State Province Name. Next, we also changed the Font Color to Green, Font Family to Georgia, Font Size to 20, and Title Alignment to center. If you want, you can add the background Color to the title as well.

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Format Background Color, and Border of a Line Chart

You can add the Background color to a Line Chart by toggling Background option to On. And, you can add Borders to a Line Chart by toggling the Border option from Off to On.

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