To explore the various buttons within Power BI, do the following:

1. Create a new page and rename this page Buttons.
2. Now, click on the Home tab of the ribbon. In the Insert section of the ribbon, click on the Buttons icon.

There are nine types of buttons in Power BI, as follows:

• • Left arrow
  • Right arrow
  • Reset
  • Back
  • Information
  • Help
  • Q&A
  • Bookmark
  • Blank

3. Create one of each button type.
4. Power BI will automatically place buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the screen so that, after creating each button, you can move the button to a different area of the canvas so that no two buttons overlap.
5. Click on each of these buttons in turn and notice that the VISUALIZATIONS pane changes to include formatting options for each button.

Different buttons have different default formatting options that are either turned on or off by default. For example, the Blank button has the Outline formatting option turned on by default, while the other buttons do not. Most of the options in the VISUALIZATIONS pane (sometimes titled the Format Shape pane) are simply options that allow you to change the look and feel of these buttons. One of these formatting options is the Icon option. All of the buttons have this option turned on. If you expand the Icon section, you will notice that there is a Shape setting. By clicking on the drop-down arrow for the Shape setting, you will notice that a list of icons is presented that mirror the exact same buttons that can be created. In reality, each of the various button types in Power BI aren't really button types at all, but rather default settings for a single type of element—a button!