Power BI: where is the conditional formatting option in new format pane

Amit Chandak
4 min readAug 8, 2022

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Power BI: where is the conditional formatting option in the new format pane

Conditional formatting options have moved under different headings in the new format pane. This has been done to organize the information better. Please note that conditional formatting does not work with legend and more than one measure.

Table Visual → Under Cell Elements

Power Bi Table Conditional Formatting

Matrix Visual → Under Cell Elements

Stacked Bar Chart(When You are not using Legend) → Under Bars. Stacked has no meaning without legend, and fx will not be available once you use the legend

100% Stacked Bar Chart

Stacked Column Chart(When You are not using Legend) → Under Columns. Stacked has no meaning without legend, and fx will not be available once you use the legend

100% Column Bar Chart

Clustered Bar Visual → Under Bars

Power bi Bars Visual conditional formatting

Clustered Column Visual → Under columns

Power bi column Visual conditional formatting

Line → Line does not have it. Old trick: do it on bar convert to the line. Only colored markers.

Power BI Line

Area →Area does not have it. Old trick: do it on bar convert to Area. Only colored markers. Stacked Area same way, if you are not using legend or more than one measure

Power Bi Area

Line and Stacked column chart. For Line, there is no conditional formatting option. For Column, we have unless we use the legend

Power BI Line and Stacked column

Line and Clustered column chart. For Line, there is no conditional formatting option. For Column, we have unless we use the legend

Power BI Line and Clustered column

Ribbon Visual → under Ribbons. Only with one measure and no legend.

Power BI Ribbon

Waterfall → No Option

Power BI Water Fall

Funnel → Under Color. Single Measure with Category

Power Bi Funnel

Scatter Visual → Under Markers

Power Bi Scatter

Pie/Donut → No Option. Old trick: do it on bar convert to Pie/Donut

Power Bi Pie
Power BI Donut

Tree Map → Under Color

Power BI Tree Map

MAP → Under the bubble

Power Bi Map

Filled Map → Under Fill Color

Power Bi Filled Map

Shape Map → Only Gradient

Power Bi Shape Map

Gauge → under Color

Power BI Gauge

Card → Under Callout value

Power BI card

Multi-Row Card → Under Callout values, Category Label, and cards

Power BI Multi-Row Card

KPI → Under Trend Axis and Target Label

Power BI KPI Visual

Refer to my Old Blog and video on conditional formatting: How to do conditional formatting by measure and apply it to pie

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Amit Chandak
Amit Chandak

Written by Amit Chandak

Amit has 20+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science. He is Chief Analytics Officer at Kanerika & Power BI community Super User

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