Copy/Paste a Power BI Page from a report to another report

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I would like to copy some Power BI pages from a report to another report - data source is not the same but just need to have the same visuals.

I would like to avoid to re-start from scratch.

Best regards

Hervé

[Pragati11]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You can do this easily. Simple trick by copying visuals from REPORT1 (Ctrl+C) and then pasting them to your REPORT2 (Ctrl+V).

After you paste these visuals to your REPORT2, they will give error as you mentioned the datasource is not same. Start by adding your new data to these visuals and this should work.

Thanks,

Pragati

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your answer. But I would like to copy the FULL page not only some visuals.

[Pragati11]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Do a CTRL+A and then CTRL+C

Thanks,

Pragati

[Anonymous]

I tried Control A and then Control C -> nothing happened

The same with Ctrl C then Ctrl V -> nothing

[Pragati11 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Seems to be working on my end and I use it all the time.

Are you doing this in Power BI Desktop?

I am following these steps:

1. Click somewhere on the empty space on the report page
2. Click CTRL+A --> this selects all the visuals
3. Click CTRL+C --? this copies all the visuals
4. On the new report click on the empty page and then CTRL+V

Thanks,

Pragati

[xangetsu21]

how about when i am trying to duplicate a multi page (say 50) report with different dataset. for example i have report on a particular market data. now i want to make another report with all them pages and visuals for another market; the data tables will have similar columns but the tables have different names and data than the original one. how do i do it? i tried exporting as a template but it doesnt work

[MAUDA_777]

In my case it didn't work with the usual keyborad shortcuts (ctrl-c, ctrl-v). 
BUT when using the Copy and Paste from the Start-Menu, it does!

[EJ5]

Hi,

The start menu does not work either for me to copy paste, i.e., when trying to copy paste the visual from one file the size of each visual that gets copied to the new Desktop PBI file gets oversized and all visuals being oversized overlaps each other. When trying to resize them the visual info gets changed. How to keep the formatting same from one PBI file to other, or one report to other ?

[user5341567]

Were you able to resolve this? I'm having the same issue, where everything is oversized when I use CTRL + C -> CTRL + V. I have a lot of slicers on one page and it takes awhile to adjust each one.

[KJMcMahon]

That worked great! Thank you so much!

[AlphaWine]

works! thank you so much.

Although it missed out a few filters, not that a few more copy paste won do 🙂

[Anonymous]

Great - Thanks for your support.