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Hi Power BI Community. I'm having issues with Power BI Desktop. I'm trying to create dashboards outside the dotted area but I can't. Every action I do, or any chart I create, it appears inside the dotted area. I have tried with Chat GPT to provide a solution, but the solution it provided did not work: restarting the app, typing on ESCAPE, exit focus mode etc. I also tried creating other dotted area, but I could not, so I'm limited to work inside that small dotted area instead being able to use the whole canva. Can you help me?
@GGondar Down in the lower right corner, you need to adjust your zoom. You are at 20% zoom currently and you need to increase this to at least 100%. The area inside the dotted line is your Canvas where you place visuals. The area outside the dotted line is the Canvas Background, which you can control here:
Hi Greg! Thanks for your response
Understood about the zoom but, why the outside part of the dotted line would be the canvas background, if the dotted line is the canvas itself. I changed the colour and logically, what changed is the area inside the dotted line (see picture).
The only solution I found to make the dotted line bigger so I can use the full size of the page, is modifying the size here:
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