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Microsoft should fix Power BI themes
Power BI theme files are great for controlling a lot of properties of visuals. However, there are quite a few bugs and limitations. I think at least all properties of all standard visuals should be controllable by the theme. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Microsoft should definitely fix this. At the moment these issues make it almost impossible to create a nicely and properly working theme file which can be adopted by the entire organization.
A few clear and easy examples:
- Font sizes for slicer headers can only be affected by changing the global font size for titles... I mean, who would have guessed that. I consider this being a bug.
- Font sizes for category lables cannot be controlled by the theme at all.
- Text wrapping cannot be set by the theme.
- Style presets and layouts cannot be set by the theme.
- Etc.
A lot of these properties can be defined in the theme file and Power BI will import the file but they don't seem to have any effect on the visuals (even after choosing "Reset all settings to default").
Please fix this Microsoft Power BI Team!
Please note:
We are working with the 64bit September 2025 version of Power BI so may be some issues have been fixed already.
Please vote for the idea here: Microsoft should fix Power BI themes - Microsoft Fabric Community
Hi GideonW, I generally agree with many of your points, but I believe this would fit better as a suggestion under Ideas > "Submit ideas & vote". There are actually quite a few related requests there if you check the search:
I personally would love to just be able to use custom CSS Stylesheets instead of the current JSON Themes...
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- KarinSzilagyi
Super User
Hi GideonW, I generally agree with many of your points, but I believe this would fit better as a suggestion under Ideas > "Submit ideas & vote". There are actually quite a few related requests there if you check the search:
I personally would love to just be able to use custom CSS Stylesheets instead of the current JSON Themes...- GideonWNew Member
Hi KarinSzilagyi , thanks for your reply! Based on your reply I have submitted my post as an idea as well. I agree that it would be even better if we could just use custom CSS styling. However, in case this might be a longer term solution I think Microsoft possibly is able to fix the current JSON theme file in a shorter term...?
- GideonWNew Member
Please vote for the idea here: Microsoft should fix Power BI themes - Microsoft Fabric Community