How to align column widths

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

That's a good solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCaFGO_AyDs

[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous - I am not aware of anything for this.

[Anonymous]

[collinq · Accepted solution]

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/32659126-column-width-size-issue-...

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34864783-guide-grid-for-table-col...

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34423198-set-column-widths

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/18929665-ability-to-apply-width-t...

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!

[Anonymous]

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.