Synonyms button missing in Q & A visual

Hi WillBee​,

The difference you are seeing can be expected because the “Add synonyms now” banner is not a permanent part of the Q&A visual UI.

Microsoft’s Q&A tooling documentation says that the banner can vary depending on factors such as whether you are signed in and whether organization-shared synonyms are available.

So even with the same PBIX and Desktop version, one machine/session can show the banner while another does not.

The important thing is whether the Synonyms configuration itself is still available.

You can check it through:

Q&A visual -> gear icon -> Synonyms

or from the model by selecting a table/column and using the Synonyms property in the Modeling/Properties pane.

Microsoft documents both approaches in the Q&A tooling guidance.

If the banner is missing but the Synonyms page is still available, you are not losing the underlying functionality.

I would compare these between the two machines:

signed-in account
organization synonym-sharing availability
Q&A setup -> Suggestion settings
Desktop version/build

One other thing to keep in mind is that Microsoft has announced that Power BI Q&A experiences are being retired in February 2027, with Copilot for Power BI becoming the recommended natural-language experience.

So I would not spend too much time troubleshooting the banner itself unless the actual Synonyms functionality is also missing.

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