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Drop -down slicers in Power BI, they were always kind of ugly.

However, now since the October 26th release, we can make them look like this.

Pretty amazing, with all different kinds of UX components and formatting options to make them really, really, really nice.

Now, in this video, we're going to explore this new drop -down slicer.

Let's dive in.

Now, almost every

Power BI report has one, a drop -down slicer.

It's just because they are so space -efficient and easy to set up and easy to use.

However, we just never had many formatting options

but now in the october 26 release we finally got what we were asking for for many many years

so we got many formatting options and many ux components

that we can add to our slices now let's have a look over here

i have a report with three of these new drop down slices

and when i open them up it already looks straight away a lot better

and we have really cool little ux components like show selected first for example

if I now make a selection I can toggle this on

and you see all of the selected ones go at the top we have a search box

that we can completely form

it like we like it to look like we can have little images inside of it

and you see also what is selected super super useful

so as you can see pretty amazing let's go over some of the key functionalities

and how to make them look nice let me just start from scratch

and delete the one that exists for the different countries

and I'm going to start with a new list slicer

which is still a preview visual all right so I'll make sure

that it's turned on I'm going to put it over here in between the different slicers

and I want to have country on that slicer okay now

that just gives me a standard list however now I want to turn

that into a drop down

and you see in the formatting options there there's a toggle for drop down

and actually from scratch it already looks quite okay however I want to nicely blend it in with the background

so I'm going to go over here to size and style

and turn the background off

and over here I can go for a different color for example purple let's also make

it a little bit smaller and over here I'm just going to capitalize this country now

that looks quite okay however

now I want to have little images right in front of each country the country flag okay

now to set this up it's really easy we just have to go over here to image

and then here we have image for all the states i select over here select from data

and now we just need a field that contains all of the image urls

or measure now in my case i have a measure

so i'm gonna look for it which is this one over here image flag

and i can just drag and drop it onto that field

and basically that's already it now of course this doesn't look

so good so here we see we have image fit

which we can set to fit and then it already looks a little bit better

but of course we can fine tune it even further so

if we go a little bit further down then you will see here layout

and here we have the image area size now

if we put this to 10 already looks much better

and also here we have things like gap

so maybe we want to increase that a little bit further

and we have also padding

so i don't want it to ignore the padding okay

now this is already pretty cool we have now images inside of our drop -down slicer however there's

so much more there are really a lot of formatting options

now it is too much to go over every single option however let's just focus on the main ones okay

now i'm going to go back now one

that i'm really excited about is

that we now have a lot of control over how this

drop down actually looks like now we have of course things like the shape

and the padding however we also have size

so we can now make this drop down wider than the actual input box right

so if we set this width to let's say 500

if i now open it up you see it's much wider

and that is really really helpful now i'm going to put it back to what it was 300.

now another thing that i'm super excited about is

that we have now pills

that show what is actually selected now this was not possible before before

it just said well you have multiple items selected not very helpful

and then you have to well click on the drop down to see what is actually selected

now this has changed let's go over here to a slicer let's first make sure

that we can have a multi -select

so i'm going to go over here to slicer settings turn off single select then open it up

and i'm going to select a few countries just like this okay now you see we have now belgium canada

and when it doesn't fit anymore plus one so and

if we have even more plus two all right so

if i would make this wider wider wider then we see everything

that would still fit okay so this is really nice

and of course everything every little component we can format there are really a lot of formatting options now in this case

These would be the selection pails.

And let's say we want to have that little cross in red.

Then we can just go here to the dismiss button and make it red like this.

We have also the option to change the shape, the padding, the text, the border, the background, all for just these little pails.

And that is what is really nice about this drop -down slicer.

We have a lot of control about the formatting of every little piece inside of that drop -down slicer.

Now, instead of showing the items that are selected, we can also do the inverse we can actually also clear our selection first

and then go over here to slice and settings make sure

that we have a select all option and now if i select select all and start deselecting countries

then it says not australia and so the inverse okay so

that is also pretty cool okay now i'm going to clear selection again now

if you think oh

it is a little bit too busy here on the left

hand side let's put these selection boxes maybe on the other side possible i'm gonna go over here to

the selection icon here we have the layout position is currently on the left

but i want it to be on the right okay go back

now we have it on the right inside as you can see there are just

so many formatting options now let me show you another one let's go back to our slicer

i'm going to first clear the selection again

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and now let's go over here to the formatting options where we have show selected first okay now

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if you turn this on and then go back to your drop down

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and you have a selection

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and you see this is a pretty long list

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then it might at some point be a little bit difficult to see what is actually selected

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so with this button we can put everything to the top

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so if i now select canada you see boop it goes there to the top

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and of course that show selected first button there are formatting options for it

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so if we go over here to formatting then show selected first we have here button

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and let's let's make it purple okay

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and you see oh all right now let me show you one more

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we can also format the search box now you know how you can go to your slicer

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and then do ctrl f to show a search box

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and there we have it now i had to do it a few times before

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it actually popped up however now it's there

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and we have of course also formatting options for that search box

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so over here we could for example give it a different background color

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so maybe we want to have it in purple

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and let's apply a little bit of transparency to it with an accent bar maybe also in darker purple

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and if we then go back boom looks amazing okay

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so of course we can make

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it look much much better however the main point is you can now format every little thing inside of

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that drop down slices so it got way way better than what we had before

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so from now on your drop down slices can look much

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much better all right good play around with it let me know what you think put

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it in the comment section below thank you again for watching and see you in the next video.

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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “The Dropdown Slicer We Waited 10 Years For”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: drop, slicer, option, formatting, selected. Deze video bevat 125 zinnen en 1573 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 8:04. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 195 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
select werkwoord	/sɪˈlɛkt/	uitkiezen, selecteer
format zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/	lay-out, formaat
slice zelfstandig naamwoord	/slaɪs/	plak, schijf
component zelfstandig naamwoord	/kəmˈpoʊ.nənt/	onderdeel, component
purple zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɝ.pl̩/	paars, purper
helpful bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/	behulpzaam
scratch werkwoord	/skɹæt͡ʃ/	krassen, krabben
layout zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈleɪ.aʊt/	indeling
ignore werkwoord	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	negeren
efficient bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪˈfɪʃənt/	efficiënt
ugly bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˈʌɡli/	lelijk
dragon zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈdɹæɡən/	draak, lintworm
boom werkwoord	/bum/	dreunen, donderen
explore werkwoord	/ɪkˈsploɹ/	onderzoeken, bestuderen
tune zelfstandig naamwoord	/tjuːn/	melodie

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
go back werkwoord		teruggaan
pop up werkwoord		opduiken, te voorschijn komen
set up werkwoord	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	bereiden, voorbereiden
turn off werkwoord		uitzetten, uitschakelen

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, doesn't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: transparency /tɹænsˈpæɹənsi/, capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: pad /pæd/, dive /daɪv/, blend /blɛnd/, capitalize /ˈkæpətəˌlaɪz/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/, pad /pæd/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/, dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/, accent /ækˈsɛnt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/, ugly /ˈʌɡli/, dragon /ˈdɹæɡən/, toggle /ˈtɒɡ.əl/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als select, format, slice.

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Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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