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PowerPoint- Embedded Power BI not functioning correctly
I've posted a power BI to my company's Power BI Service and have successfully embedded a few of those dashboards into a PowerPoint presentation. I wish that were the end of the story.
On occasion, the visuals will load incorrectly, as if the underlying data model was incorrect (I've triple checked, it's not). The errors show themselves when I use the slicers in the embeded visuals: lines that the slicer should filter out continue to appear in the visual.
"Realoading" the data into the visuals doesn't resolve the error; if there's new data in the model the calculations will update, but the erant data lines in the visual itself will remain. I need to completely remove the embeded powerpoint visual and re-add it in order to get this error to resolve.
Is this a known issue with Power BI embedding? Or is there a switch somewhere that I can flip to resolve this issue?
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Yes, this is a known limitation of the Power BI PowerPoint add‑in, not a data model issue. If the report structure (slicers, visuals, bookmarks) changes after the visual/report is embedded, the add‑in can keep a stale internal state. As a result, slicers may not fully apply filters even though the underlying data refreshes correctly.
Note that Refresh only refreshes data, not report-definition changes. Try Data options → Reset → Sync to reload the latest report definition. If the structure changed and Sync doesn’t resolve it, removing and re‑embedding the visual/report is currently the most reliable workaround. There is no single switch that fully prevents this behavior today.
PowerPoint is simply using an outdated report‑definition snapshot, so slicers filter against the wrong structure and leftover lines stay visible. Refresh only updates data, not that definition. Reset → Sync forces a clean reload, if the snapshot is already broken, re‑embedding is the only fix.
