Pasting text from MS Word into a text box - page margins error.

[Glenwb]

Hi

I've been living with this issue for the 3+ years I've dipped in and out of using Power Bi, so finally thought I'd see if there's a better solution. 

I often create text pages in a PBI report, where an entire page will be a text box of narrative, usage notes, methadology, how to guide with hyperlinks (etc etc).  I create the text and formatting in Word, often collaborating with non-PBI users on the content through sharepoint, then copy/paste the final text with formatting from Word into the PBI text box using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V.  When I do this the general formatting from the Word file pastes into the PBI text box (bold headers, hyperlinks, font etc) but rather than fill the text box it keeps a margin or page width format from Word, creating blank page space on the right of tghe text box.  I then have to manually edit the text in the PBI text box so it fills the entire text box, which can be time consuming and quite annoying.

By way of example I've attached 3 screenshots at the end of this post.  Ignore the text itself, it's random LLM generated nonsense.

I've searched this forum, the internet and tried the LLMs,  I've also tried a HTML solution (saving the Word file as a filtered HTML web page, adding this to a HTML Visual as a query), but the page margin/width issue is exactly the same.

Any solutions, or just validation that this is a PBI limitation without a solution, are grateully received.

Many thanks

Glen

1 formatted text in MS Word (usually text will have bold headers, hyperlinks etc formatting)

2 - pasted text from Word into PBI textbox - what I WANT to happen (of note, this is what happens when I paste text directly from a web source)

3 - pasted text from Word into PBI textbox - what ALWAYS happens (which I then have to manually edit so the text fills the text box)

[Anonymous]

Hi @Glenwb ,

After pasting the text from Word, with the text box selected, explore the "Format text box" pane for additional formatting options. Adjust the text alignment, indents, and other settings to ensure the text fills the text box as desired. For more details, refer to the Power BI documentation on adding text and shapes to reports.

For more control over how text is rendered, you can right-click the text within the text box, select Text Properties, and then set the Markup type to HTML. This allows for HTML tags in your text to be rendered as HTML, which might give you more flexibility in formatting. For detailed steps, see the guide on formatting text in a text box.

Best Regards
Community Support Team _ Rongtie

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[Glenwb]

Hi @Anonymous 

The format text box doesnt provide any settings in regards page width or page margins, just the text indentations you mentioned (which isnt the issue).  

Thanks for the links to PBI documentation - I'd checked these before posting but didnt find any information relevant to solving my particular issue.

Your second paragraph and link refers to Paginated Reports, and my query is not in regards to a paginated report, just when adding/using a Text box on a standard report page.  When I highlight the text inside the text box I only see options for Group and Summarize (which are greyed out) when using the desktop app.   When doing the same in the web service the only additional option I get is Share.

Many thanks

Glen