Enabling Preview Features in Power BI Desktop

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As the Power BI Desktop team releases monthly updates, some new features are released as "Preview Features". You can easily enable these features through the option menu (File -> Options & Settings -> Options -> Preview Features). Once you select the feature(s), you must restart Power BI Desktop for the changes to take effect.

  1. Click on File -> Options & Settings -> Options

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  2. Select Preview Features in the Option menu. Select the Preview Features to enable and click OK.

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  3. An additional dialog box may appear stating that Power BI Desktop must be restarted. Restart Power BI Desktop and your feature(s) will be enabled.

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After that, you are ready to try out the Preview Features.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)