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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Copy and paste text boxes

I have formatted a text box to meet the design format of my report. I now want to copy and paste this text box to use in mulitple location within this report. The usual Ctrl-C (copy) and the Ctrl-V (...
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  • Gordonlilj's avatar
    Gordonlilj
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V should still work fine, you just have to select the text box in a very specific way. I find pressing around the side and corner of the text box works the best when selecting it this way.

     

    But to make it easier, select the textbox and in the visualizations pane just turn any option on/off and then press ctrl-c and it should copy the text box

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Gordonlilj
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7 years ago

Hi,

 

Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V should still work fine, you just have to select the text box in a very specific way. I find pressing around the side and corner of the text box works the best when selecting it this way.

 

But to make it easier, select the textbox and in the visualizations pane just turn any option on/off and then press ctrl-c and it should copy the text box

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Very aware of selecting the text box in a specific way, one of the worst funcationality issues within Power BI. Yet I still get the same issue where I hadn't before.

 

Your second suggestion is a great work around and solves my issue. Hopefully a future Power BI update will resolve this issue.

 

Thank you 

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    Anonymous
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    7 years ago

    Looks as though this issue has now been resolved, Ctrl C and V now work.