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Gregory Deckler
Gregory Deckler
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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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Touring the desktop

If you are familiar with Microsoft Office programs, many of the user interface elements of the Power BI Desktop will look familiar. The following screenshot depicts the nine major interface elements of Power BI Desktop:

Figure 3.1 – Power BI Desktop interface elements

The Power BI Desktop user interface comprises nine areas, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Let's delve deeper into each of these areas.

Header

In the preceding screenshot (Figure 3.1), the Header is the small strip at the top of Power BI Desktop. This area is standard for Windows applications, including the Minimize, Restore down/Maximize, and Close icons in the upper-right corner.

In the far-left corner are icons for Save, Undo the last action, and Redo the last action. To the right of these icons is the name of the currently opened file, or Untitled if the file has not been saved; next to that is the name of the application. For Power BI Desktop...

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Gregory Deckler

Greg Deckler is Vice President of the Microsoft Practice at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology systems consultant for over 25 years. Internationally recognized as an expert in Power BI, Greg Deckler is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and a superuser within the Power BI community with over 100,000 messages read, more than 11,000 replies, over 2,300 answers, and more than 75 entries in the Quick Measures Gallery. Greg founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and presents at numerous conferences and events, including SQL Saturday, DogFood, and the Dynamic Communities User Group/Power Platform Summit.
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