May Power BI update adds column formatting and landing page options
The May 2026 release focuses on report experience tweaks. Users can now set default column widths and choose custom landing pages for reports. Community discussion on r/PowerBI notes the absence of major Fabric or modelling changes. The thread received 34 upvotes and 16 comments in its first days. Participants describe the update as productivity-oriented rather than platform-shifting.
Before this update, analysts with broken inherited reports already spent hours fighting refresh times and undocumented Power Query steps. The new formatting options only appear after a report loads, so they do nothing for the four-hour refresh problem. The shift toward small UI wins reveals Microsoft is assuming most users have already solved data modelling and performance. For teams still copying data into Excel because the data model makes no sense, the gap between what the product offers and what they can actually ship just widened.
Analysis
Ignore the formatting buttons until your refresh finishes in under ten minutes. Open the worst inherited report, delete half the Power Query steps that do nothing, and replace them with a single dataflow that the next person can actually read.
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