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gsksarepta
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Helper II

Copy visuals with scroll bar when too many datapoints to fit

Hi, most of my power bi visuals cannot fit in to a single page when copied.  When I copy them, I never get the scroll bar and the copied images only display the part of the chart that fits on the page. I read some posts that it is a default functionality that PowerBI visuals get copied with scroll bar when data points exceeds the number it can display. Can anyone point me if there is any setting or configuration I need to enable to get scroll bar each time I copy visual? 

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lbendlin
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you are solving the wrong problem.  Your real goal should be to get rid of the scrollbar by showing your data differently.

@lbendlin Thanks for the response but I didn't understand. First of all, I never got a scroll bar and would like to know how to get a scroll bar when I copy. To your proposed solution, How can I get rid of data when I need to display all the data points on a line/scatter plot? Also, when a user copies this graph, a scroll bar would be convinient so he can scroll to the left or right to examine different data points. Also, the charts are small and have scroll bars because I have 4 line charts on a single powerbi visual. At default zoom level, each graph only shows about 40 data points whereas the whole chart have about 150 data points. Looking forward to your thoughts on this. 

a scroll bar would be convinient so he can scroll to the left or right to examine different data points

Usability research shows that users hate strongly dislike scrollbars, especially horizontal scrollbars.

@lbendlin sorry if my request was not clear before. I understand the scroll bars are not preferred by many but my users specifically want to get a scroll bar when they copy but not getting it. My question now is how to get scroll bar when I copy a graph from PowerBI web to a word document. Thanks 

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