A common request that is raised by clients is how to sort a table in Power BI by multiple columns, in the same way you can in Excel.
For a while, there was no way (at least no easy way) to do this until the Power BI March 2020 update.
I learnt this tip from the following YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0K1H9j2Uc
Full credit to Dhruvin Shah, check his video out.
Below I have a Power BI table displaying fruit sales, currently unsorted.
To sort the table by Fruit click on the column header Fruit.
The table is now sorted by Fruit in alphabetical order.
To add a secondary sort on Sales, hold the Shift key and click on the column header Sales.
The table is now sorted by
– Fruit name in alphabetical order
– Sales in descending order
Some extras to note:
– There is no limit on the number of columns that can be used to sort a table. Just hold the shift key and keep choosing columns.
– This feature is not available for matrices.
– To switch the sorting from ascending to descending or vice-versa continue to hold shift and click on the column header again.
Easy when you know how.
You do!!
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