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Stoon's avatar
Stoon
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8 years ago
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Power BI Desktop canvas resolution issue

Hello everyone,   since the february update I am experiencing a weird behavior - when I drag my Power BI Desktop window from my laptop screen to my external screen (1920x1200), the canvas starts to...
  • Stoon's avatar
    Stoon
    8 years ago

    As it turns out it is a scaling issue. And it can be "solved" by setting the same level of scaling for both screens (in Windows at least):

     


     

    Sorry for the czech language in the screenshot - Control Panel -> Appearance And Personalization -> Display -> Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays. Not a best solution, but it works for now.

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

I am another person experiencing the same issue as I move from my laptop to my large monitor! I would love to see a resolution that allows for me to use the new features in the latest release.

 

 

That is an image of how poorly the the desktop app appears on my large monitor with the latest update.

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RobertMorse
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6 years ago

I'm experiencing the exact same issue, where scaling isnt' working correctly on my external monitors at 1920x1200. The desktop app is unusable unless it's shown on the screen of my surface book, it is useless on my external displays because of this. Help!