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Adding Bullet point as a prefix to a column
You can use the UNICHAR function.
You can use the UNICHAR function.
You can use the UNICHAR function?
I'm working in a text box making a list of questions to answer in my data. So, I thought I'd check to see if I could find any easy way to add bullet points.
It's hard for me to imagine a less useful answer than Use the UNICHAR function. Where would I use the Unichar function in a text box??
Here's an answer from somebody who's actually trying to be useful.
And yes it's way to long, so I'm just going to copy bullet points out of Word. But at least it's not a smiling generality that can't do anything except generate ticked off responses from other members.
Using Unicode Characters in Power BI by Soheil Bakhshi Microsoft Data Platform MVP
In this post I explain how you can use Power BI as a tool to generate almost all valid Unicode characters in Power BI. You can download the PBIT at the bottom of this post. Then you can copy the Unicode characters from Power BI and use them in all textual parts of your report like visual titles, text boxes and so on.
The Unicode planes start from 0 to 1,114,111 which is decimal equivalent of 0 to 10FFFF in hexadecimal numeral system. For more information on Unicode planes check this out.
So, a simple way to generate all possible Unicode characters is to generate a list of decimal numbers starting from 0 ending at 1,114,111. This way we generate a series of decimal numbers regardless of the gaps between starting and ending Unicode blocks. Then using UNICHAR() function in DAX to generate corresponding Unicode characters. With the following DAX expression you can easily generate a list and the corresponding Unicode characters:
Generate Unicode =
SELECTCOLUMNS(
ADDCOLUMNS(
GENERATESERIES(0, 1114111, 1)
, "Unicode Character"
, IFERROR(UNICHAR([Value]), "Not Supported")
)
, "Decimal Value", [Value]
, "Unicode Character", [Unicode Character]
)