Make Totals on a Matrix Red if Negative

[jleo25]

In my matrix I have all positive numbers black and all negative numbers red except for the totals. I have months as my column and departments as my lines, I have totals for both month and department. Is there any way to format these just like the rest of the matrix? I just want positive to be black and negative to be red.

[martinArias]

I had this same question then figured it out:

When you apply conditional formatting to the values themselves, you can select apply to Values and Totals in the UI

[Mond]

We don't have conditional formatting for Totals, but I can suggest to use high level table / matrix for the summation and make conditional format on the values.

Hope this help !

[Phil_Seamark]

Hi @jleo25

Yes you can use conditional formatting.  Click the down arrow of the field you would like to apply the conditional formatting to.

Then choose conditional formatting from the menu and then font colour scales

finally configure the conditional formatting dialog for your field as follows

Which should give you

[jleo25]

That is how I got all of the other numbers to look how I wanted but it did not change the totals. Maybe I am missing something? I attached a pic of what I am working with, I have everything looking how I want except the totals.

[Mond · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We don't have conditional format on Totals.

Create another table of same structure with dept and final amount column next to the existing matrix.

Format Dept column to be hidden (may be column width to "2 points") and do conditional format on Final Amount column.

[jleo25]

Thank you, that is what I was just trying to figure out after reading your 1st post. Thanks again

[Anonymous]

Hey @jleo25

I don't think it's possible to conditionally format the Total row. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Parker

[Phil_Seamark]

I managed to get something working using a Table visual

The total line isn't bold, but will switch from red to black depending on totals.

I have attached a PBIX file.

 (edit - I have slightly updated the PBIX file to make it tidier)