Power BI: put a new text line and special characters in measure
To put a new line, it is quite easy, just put this:
&UNICHAR(10)&
And make sure that the “word wrap” option is on:
So for instance, I will create a measure by clicking on “home -> new measure” and I put a phrase. To see the result, I will create a “card” in the visualization and in the “fields”, I put the “measure”.
As you can see, it shows in 1 line because the “word wrap” option off.
Now if I turn on the option, I have 2 lines:
To put a special character, I will use an unicode, the same one as excel. For that, I will use this webpage Huge List of Unicode Symbols that references most of them.
UNICHAR(unicode number)
For instance to put an up arrow, I will look in the webpage the unicode number for the top arrow so my formula will be:
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