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Help tooltips add quick guidance to a visual through a small Help tooltip icon in the visual header. Consumers select the icon to view either short text or a report page that explains the visual or describes how to interact with it.
For an introduction to all tooltip types, see Tooltips overview.
Enable a Help tooltip
- Select a visual on the report canvas.
- In the Format visual pane, go to General > Header icons.
- Expand Icons, and then turn on Help tooltip.
- Choose your content type:
- Typed text help for short explanations.
- Report page help for richer content with visuals, KPIs, or images. For steps to build the page, see Create report page tooltips in Power BI.
Note
The Help tooltip icon appears only when Header icons are turned on and the visual header is visible.
Tip
You can add an animated GIF as the background of a report page Help tooltip to demonstrate interactions like drilling.
Considerations and limitations
- Help icon visibility depends on visual header settings.
- Typed text help doesn't respond to slicers or filters.
- Report page help can respond to filters you design into the page.
- Theme colors apply to the Help tooltip frame.
- If the Help tooltip shows the wrong content, confirm the selected type (text or report page). For report pages, also check that Allow use as tooltip is turned on.