Ask:
Can we please get the ability to select something and "Control+B" to bold specific items? Preferably, bolding of particular rows in a data table.
Background:
I work in a financial institution where most reporting is built with Excel pivot tables. My partners - accountants, financial analysts, credit officers, middle office managers, risk managers, senior leaders, and even executives care little about charts and graphs. They want to visually see the numbers and their aggregates in a formatted table that is automated in a dashboard on a site. Our data is primarily statements, balance sheets, and adjustments rolled into hierarchal, aggregated structures that tell the story across parent and child businesses and parent and child products. When an executive says they want to put their reporting in PowerBI or Tableau, WHAT THAT MEANS is they want to "Excel" with said BI tool that contains specific bolded rows, report filters, commentary, and even the ability to export them as a data table in Excel retaining the same formatting as in the dashboard. Below is an example of what I'm talking about, and come on, you can't tell me the first example looks as good as the second...
Product Q1Val Q2Val Q3Val
Prod1 $25 $26 $28
subprod1 $10 $12 $14
subprod2 $10 $12 $14
subprod3 $5 $2 $0
Prod2 $20 $18 $20
subprod4 $10 $9 $10
subprod5 $10 $9 $10
Prod3 $25 $22 $23
Total Product $70 $66 $68
Product Q1Val Q2Val Q3Val
Prod1 $25 $26 $28
subprod1 $10 $12 $14
subprod2 $10 $12 $14
subprod3 $5 $2 $0
Prod2 $20 $18 $20
subprod4 $10 $9 $10
subprod5 $10 $9 $10
Prod3 $25 $22 $23
Total Product $70 $66 $68
Suppose you bring more "Excel-like" table customization and formatting to PowerBI. In that case, I guarantee you will see a 20-30% increase in interested companies looking for a better way to create their current Excel reporting. You'll also better bridge that gap for conditioned to only seeing things in table visuals.
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