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Make Custom Visuals – Create a Bar Chart

February 12, 2019 By Mike Carlo
Building Reports
Make Custom Visuals – Create a Bar Chart

With the release of the custom visuals building tool Charts.PowerBI.Tips we received a number of comments requesting tutorials on how to build visuals.  Ask and you shall receive!  Below is a basic tutorial on how to create a Bar chart.  Within this tutorial we review a couple of the features of the chart tool and how to use them.

Video Tutorial on Building a Basic Bar Chart Custom Visual

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