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Anonymous
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8 years ago

How do I copy text from the Power BI report?

  I want to be able to copy text from the report, such a feature is univeral in Windows and is known as "clipboard access".     You really need to hear me on this.  This is an outrage.  I will exp...
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RMDNA
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8 years ago

Anonymous,

 

Please don't treat us like we're dumb - we all know what copy/paste is.

 

You've always been able to copy/paste just fine, as long as it's selectable text, like what you can type into text boxes. Everything else is usually a component of a visual, like titles (and you can do the same in the title edit field).

 

What else are you trying to copy/paste?

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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8 years ago

 

On another thread someone had asked about clipboard access and the response had been to ask what that is.  

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-do-I-get-clipboard-access-in-Power-BI-reports-clipboard/m-p/412237/highlight/true#M189149

 

I am not treating you as though dumb, I am asking a serious question.  

 

I want to copy the "job name" from the table and it does not allow that!  

 

https://msit.powerbi.com/groups/me/reports/5ce6eb7d-4bdc-47de-a2a3-813dcba8bb08/ReportSection

  • v-xjiin-msft's avatar
    v-xjiin-msft
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    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    First I cannot visit your second link. It says I don't have access to your report. So if you want to share us your report. You can try One Drive or Google Drive.

     

    Then you want to copy the "job name". Where is it and what is it? Maybe you can also share us some screenshots about it. And as RMDNA said, it is able to do Copy and Paste in Power BI, as long as it's selectable text.

     

    Thanks,
    Xi Jin.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      I understand that copying the text is not a feature and that perhaps there is some security reason for this. 

      I have not heard you mention any way of "turning on and off" the clipboard access, after several communications on this subject both on my thread and on threads opened by other users.  Therefore I am satisfied what the answer is. 

      I would recommend that we instead create a custom report in Html which would allow those consuming the report to be able to copy the job names (which are text).  However, I am being over-ruled, so congratulations.