Export data column order wrong for xlsx v. csv

Exporting the data from a table/matrix to CSV has the proper column order that matches the table. However, in the service, export to XLSX seems to randomly re-order the columns. Shown is an imag...

Reports

v-haibl-msft

Microsoft Employee

9 years ago

Anonymous

I've got response from Product team:

Currently this is by design. Export to Excel export the data from the dataset and isn't aware of visual changes that are done in PBI frontend UI like column re order

Best Regards,

Herbert

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