PowerBI Table Alternate Colors Option removed?

[premthakkar]

Hello Power BI Team,

I’m writing this as a long-time Power BI user who builds operational dashboards daily—not demos, not samples, not screenshots, but dashboards that people actually work in for hours.

Over the last few updates, several basic but extremely practical formatting options have been quietly removed or hidden, particularly in the Table and Matrix visuals. The most painful example is the removal of alternating row backgrounds in Tables, which was a simple, effective readability feature used widely in real-world reporting.

What’s frustrating is not just the limitation itself, but the direction it reflects:

• Useful controls removed without clear alternatives

• “Style presets” that look fine in marketing examples but perform poorly in dense, real dashboards

• More time spent fighting the tool than focusing on insights

Presets are not a substitute for control. Most serious Power BI users I know turn them off immediately and manually format visuals anyway—because clarity, contrast, and readability matter far more than opinionated color choices.

I’m sharing this feedback because Power BI is otherwise a very capable platform, and regressions like this genuinely reduce productivity for experienced users. Please consider reintroducing:

• Alternating row formatting for Tables

• Clear, granular control over visual styling

• Fewer opinionated defaults, more user choice

This feedback comes from someone who wants the product to be better—not from a place of resistance to change, but from daily hands-on use.