Quick measures are Pre-built or you can say readymade measures. You don’t have to write DAX formula for this, it’s done for you based on input you provide in a quick measure dialog box.
Also it help to you write or understand the DAX formula. So, Let’s start with an example, you can download the sample Dataset from below link-
Follow the below steps-
Step-1: Open Power BI file & Load Sample data set.
Step-2: Right click on ‘Orders’ data set > Then click on ‘New quick measure’

Quick Measure
Step-3: After that Quick measure dialog box appears and then select calculations.

Quick Measure
Quick measure provides five type categories of calculations and they are-
- Aggregate per category
- Filters
- Time intelligence
- Totals
- Mathematical operations
- Text
So, let’s start with Mathematical operations, Sample data set screen shot as below-

Sample Data for Power Bi
Now add ‘unit Price’ & ‘Profit’ fields to using quick measure Addition Calculation.

Mathematical Operations
Drag ‘Profit’ & ‘Unit Price’ fields under Base value box and Value to add then click on OK button for further proceed.

Addition Calculation quick measure
Created measure by Quick Measures as below
Unit Price plus Profit = SUM(‘Orders'[Unit Price]) + SUM(‘Orders'[Profit])
Now drag new measure into table visual and it will returns sum of Profit & Unit Price as in new column.
- Quick Measure
- Quick Measure
Same you can play with another calculations, process will be same.
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