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Understand when to make a new tab

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Understand when to make a new tab

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- [Instructor] Now that we've explored Power BI's features, the focus shifts to design, how to create reports that are both beautiful and functional. Here we're going to look at report structure in terms of the number and definition of tabs. This is an example of what not to do. The tabs here are a mix of definitions. Canada is a tab defined by the country filter that's in place, if you remember from the beginning of the course. Proportion and distribution tabs are describing the types of data that we're showing in them. Maps and tables are types of visual or chart, so we don't just have apples and pears here, we have oranges too. So how should we define tab structure? Well, one option that's often overlooked is no tabs. Users actually often miss them altogether. If you look at statistics on page visits, the first tab to load gets the vast majority. So if you can fit your content onto one page without overloading it, this can be a good option. There are lots of benefits besides it…

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