Quick summary
Adding a dropdown slicer in Power BI lets you filter report data through a compact, space-saving menu instead of a list. This tutorial covers every step from inserting a Slicer visual to enabling multi-select on the dropdown.
Steps
- Open Power BI and load your data, then navigate to the Report View.
- From the Visualizations pane, select the Slicer visual.
- Drag the desired field from the Fields pane into the slicer.
- Open the Format settings panel for the slicer.
- Under Slicer settings, change the slicer type to Dropdown.
- Turn on the Multi-select option to allow multiple values to be selected at once.
- Your slicer will now display as a dropdown list on the report canvas.
