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YipYup
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Change background color of text box

Good day

 

How would I change the background color of a textbox in power bi?

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Anonymous
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Select the text box you want to format and in the 'Format' tab on the right hand side turn on 'background colour' under the 'Effect' dropdown menu 

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Anonymous
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Hi @YipYup ,

Could you tell me if your problem has been solved? If it is, kindly Accept it as the solution. More people will benefit from it. Or if you are still confused about it, please provide me with more details about your table and your problem or share me with your pbix file after removing sensitive data.

 

Best regards,
Community Support Team_ Binbin Yu

menglaro78
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @YipYup ,

select Text Box, Visualization Panel, Format, General, Effects, Background

 

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Marco

Anonymous
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Select the text box you want to format and in the 'Format' tab on the right hand side turn on 'background colour' under the 'Effect' dropdown menu 

reidnmorrison_0-1667551319046.png

 

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