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Use the Q&A dialog

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From the course: Complete Guide to Power BI for Data Analysts by Microsoft Press

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Use the Q&A dialog

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- [Instructor] Okay, so let's go ahead and demo using Q and A. This is one of the features I find the most intriguing inside of Power BI, and it is because it allows you to go ahead and ask English like questions of your data and have Power BI return results. Now, one thing I kind of like to say about this Q and A functionality is it is really much better supported if you use good naming conventions. And if you recall back earlier in the course when we were building our tables and call names, I really tried to emphasize the importance of good naming conventions. And this is kind of where we really get to see a lot of the benefit of those naming conventions way back in our data model. So to use Q and A, I'm just going to go ahead and at the top of my dashboard, 'cause I'm on the dashboard page here, I can click this, ask a question about your data and that's just going to go ahead and pop up. And now I can actually type a question in. So I'm going to type in total sales like so. And…

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