I was delivering my standard Power BI training course, and there was a question from one of the users which was ‘Is there a way of clearing all the slicers you have selected, so if you are doing something you can go back to the start’, my answer was ‘No… wait, yes… you could use a bookmark to do it’

So how to clear all slicers? First of all in Power BI Desktop you need to go to view and add the Bookmarks Pane. Then make sure that all the slicers are clear, or in the default state that you want them. In this case I made sure that everything was deselected. Once that is done, Click ‘Add’ on the bookmarks pane, that will create the Bookmark, I’ve renamed mine to ‘Default’

Next, add a button to your report, and allocate the ‘Default’ Bookmark to the Action setting. I’ve selected the ‘Reset’ button and added the text ‘Click to reset’ on mine. Next select some items, once you are done and want to go back to the start, click on the button (Ctrl-Click in Power BI Desktop), that will apply the default Bookmark, and in my case clear all the slicers! Nice quick and easy solution.