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How to align column widths
Hi everyone,
Suppose I have the screenshot at the bottom of this post:
A good looking report would mean that each of the tables are the same size, so the column widths of each table should all be in line. Is there a good way to do this besides just manually eyeballing and dragging the columns with my mouse? I'm aware you can format each visual's x and y position, which helps, but I couldn't find anything to accurately do column width. A fast, accurate way to do this is preferrable because even if I get the column widths to be pretty good, sometimes I need to adjust font sizes, add visuals off to the side and so I would need to adjust page size and re-center. This often times means the formatting could get messed up.
In Excel, every thing is stored at the cell level where its intersected by a column and a row. I am able to accurately enter in a number to adjust column or row size. Does PowerBI have anything useful like that?
I saw some other posts on this same topic, but they were from a couple years ago. I was wondering if a good way to do this has been discovered since then.
any help is appreciated, thanks!
Hi akutt,
This isn't available yet as you request, but here are a few ideas out there to do this. You can vote on any (or all) of these that I found:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34423198-set-column-widths
I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would mark this as a solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!
5 Replies
- AnonymousNot applicable
- collinqSuper User
Hi akutt,
This isn't available yet as you request, but here are a few ideas out there to do this. You can vote on any (or all) of these that I found:
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34423198-set-column-widths
I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would mark this as a solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!
- AnonymousNot applicable
Okay thank you guys for confirming.
And collinq, thank you for those posts. I voted for all of them. It's sad but this could be a potential reason that I can't use powerBI since I'm constrained to very specific standards when building reports.
- Greg_DecklerCommunity Champion
Anonymous - I am not aware of anything for this.
- AnonymousNot applicable
That's a good solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCaFGO_AyDs