New Video: Defaulting Power BI Slicers to the Current Month

There is currently no way to set a default value in a Power BI slicer visual. If you create a report with a slicer for month and choose the current month (e.g. April 2026), save the report, and then come back to the report a month later, your original selection will be enforced and the data will now show the prior month. So how do you make reports with slicers show data for the current month by default while allowing users to select other months as needed? This video shows 3 options. My current personal favorite is the button slicer solution I show as the third option.