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JeanMartinL
Advocate II
Advocate II

Display text in table/matrix without removing whitespace

Hello everyone,

 

I have some text that include some "manual" formating with \n and spaces. It seems to load correctly in the dataset:

JeanMartinL_0-1658753496723.png

 

 

JeanMartinL_2-1658753579542.png

 

But when I use it in a visual like a Table or Matrix, the whitespace are automatically trimmed.

 

JeanMartinL_3-1658753630902.png

With a Card visual there is a "Source spacing" option which looks like it could work but as far as can tell there is no way to align left so it's hard to tell. Anyway Cards are very limited and probably wouldn't be sufficient for my needs.

 

Is there a way to display text "as is" in a table or matrix?

 

Edit:

Small addendum: I can make it work using a custom visual "Text Wrapper by MAQ Software" so it's definitely not a issue with the data itself. However just like the card it's very limiting and I really wish there was a solution for the table/matrix.

 

Thanks!

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MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi @JeanMartinL ,

 

The problem here is that the spaces get trimmed in this case you need to replace the space by the empty character.

 

You can copy paste from this link:

https://emptycharacter.com/

 

Has you can see below I have two rows one with the spaces and the empty character:

MFelix_0-1658768749697.png

 

In this I have made a replace values:

= Table.ReplaceValue(#"Added Custom"," ","<u+200f><u+200f><u+200e> <u+200e>",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Custom"})
Table.ReplaceValue(#"Added

 nbsp;e.ReplaceValue(#"Added

nbsp;e.ReplaceValue(#"Added

The text seems the same thing but is from the white space.

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


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MFelix
Super User
Super User

Hi @JeanMartinL ,

 

The problem here is that the spaces get trimmed in this case you need to replace the space by the empty character.

 

You can copy paste from this link:

https://emptycharacter.com/

 

Has you can see below I have two rows one with the spaces and the empty character:

MFelix_0-1658768749697.png

 

In this I have made a replace values:

= Table.ReplaceValue(#"Added Custom"," ","<u+200f><u+200f><u+200e> <u+200e>",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Custom"})
Table.ReplaceValue(#"Added

 nbsp;e.ReplaceValue(#"Added

nbsp;e.ReplaceValue(#"Added

The text seems the same thing but is from the white space.

 


Regards

Miguel Félix


Did I answer your question? Mark my post as a solution!

Proud to be a Super User!

Check out my blog: Power BI em Português



Well done! That's a tricky solution that I never thought about.

This works perfectly for my needs, thanks!

 

JeanMartinL_0-1658769618625.png

 

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