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#PowerBI – Set a background to a URL image without a theme file

Quick Power BI tip here on a wonderful Monday morning – that I just discovered.

It’s possible to use a image URL as your background to your canvas – I used to think that this was only possible via a Power BI theme file – but no… that’s not the case.

I am using Power BI Desktop Version: 2.121.644.0 64-bit (september 2023).

Here is how…

In the format pane find the “Canvas background”

In the Image property – click the browse icon

And as the file name paste in the image URL – make sure the url returns an image

If the image is not shown

Then modify the Image fill and transparency.

Hope you find this useful.

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