Grid misaligned after duplicating page

[BSawd]

Hi all

I seem to get a strange issue where if I duplicate a page, the snap to grid becomes offset by 8 points in each direction from the actual grid. This means whenever I move a visual after this, it doesn't go quite where the grid suggests it will go, and becomes misaligned with the other visuals. It seems to persist even if I restart PBI. Really annoying. Is there any way to reset the grids, or import a custom grid to override it?

Many thanks.

[DirkVDS]

Hi,

This happens when your page zoom (bottom left corner) is less than 100% then the grid will change to 16x16px, when you zoom back to 100% or higher the grid(lines) will be back to 8x8px.
Try it out and you'll see.

Regards

Dirk

[Anonymous]

Hi @BSawd 

Please download the latest version of Power BI Desktop and try again.

For reference: Download

Here is a offical blog about snap-to-grid in Power BI.

For reference: Use gridlines and snap-to-grid in Power BI reports

Can you share a sample without sensitive data with me by your Onedrive for Business? It is better to show us a screenshot about your issue. 

Best Regards,
Rico Zhou

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[BSawd]

Hi @Anonymous, @Pragati11  - thank you for your responses and apologies, should have attached screenshots immediately as it's now taken me a while to recreate the issue.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to recreate it in a sample PBIX because it only seems to be happening in certain files. In trying to pull screenshots though I noticed the affected pages have visuals in coordinates divisible by 8 but not 16, whereas the unaffected ones have visuals in coordinates divisible by 16. I guess maybe at some point I have been able to move things on an 8-grid whereas normally it is a 16-grid. Is that possible?

I'm on 2.96.901.0 (64-bit) of Power BI Desktop, and haven't ever been on a previous version. I'll update to 2.96.1061.0 now, just didn't want to do that until I'd recreated the issue.

Screenshots

Original visual settings (note X + Width is 1272 which is divisible by 8 but not 16)

Changing width by one "snap" - moves by 8 points to the nearest 16-divisible number

Changing width back by one "snap" - moves by 16

Thanks again!

[Pragati11]

HI @BSawd ,

Can you add some screenshots here to add more details to your query? 🙂

Thanks,

Pragati