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Changing Theme in Report and in Dashboard

Monday, May 10th, 2021

In PowerBI Desktop, select the View tab and switch from default theme to City Park:

You can also customize the theme or use a JSON theme:

I created a file from the JSON here and selected it. This added the background image to the report:

Here’s the saved workbook.

On PowerBI Service, select a dashboard and change the theme:

See how the appearance changes when you switch to “Dark”

You can also upload a custom theme formatted as JSON. I used the sample here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-report-themes#introduction-to-report-theme-json-files.

New appearance after upload:

 

About the Author: Lukas Halim

I earned a Masters in Analytics from NC State in 2013 and now work as a data analyst in the health insurance industry. Using tools such as SAS, Tableau, and Teradata, I conduct analysis to help my company improve healthcare affordability and customer engagement.

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