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mdm2025
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9 months ago
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Visual in Focus MODE (full screen)

Hello everyone, I’m experiencing an issue with the formatting of a visual when opening it in Focus Mode. I’ve found references to similar issues in other scenarios, but I’d like to ask if there is ...
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  • Jaywant-Thorat's avatar
    Jaywant-Thorat
    9 months ago

    Hi mdm2025 

    Power BI does not let you customize formatting specifically for Focus Mode.
    Focus Mode always re-renders the visual with a different aspect ratio, expanded margins, auto-resized axes, different padding and default data-point spacing, which often makes line charts look terrible, exactly like your screenshots.

    This behavior is the same in Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service and even embedded reports.

    So your experience is normal, but fixable.

    Create a dedicated “Drill Through” page instead of Focus Mode.

    • Add a new blank report page

    • Copy your line visual to that page

    • Format it exactly how you want

    • Hide the page by right-click -> Hide page

    • Enable Drill-through -> Details

    full-screen clean version with your formatting, not Power BI’s auto-stretch.

     

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  • v-pnaroju-msft's avatar
    v-pnaroju-msft
    9 months ago

    Thankyou,amitchandak, Ritaf1983 and Jaywant-Thorat for your responses.

    Hi mdm2025,

    We appreciate your inquiry through the Microsoft Fabric Community Forum.

    We would like to inquire whether have you got the chance to check the solutions provided by amitchandak, Ritaf1983 and Jaywant-Thorat to resolve the issue. We hope the information provided helps to clear the query. Should you have any further queries, kindly feel free to contact the Microsoft Fabric community.

    Thank you.

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Ritaf1983
Super User
9 months ago

Hi mdm2025 

When you open non-tabular visuals in Focus Mode, Power BI doesn’t preserve the original aspect ratio of the visual.
Focus Mode tries to stretch the visual to fill as much screen space as possible.

For visuals like bars, pies, donuts, this stretching usually doesn’t hurt much.
But for line charts, where the slope and proportion of the line are the actual meaning, the stretching distorts the chart.
This is exactly why your Focus Mode version looks “broken” — the data is the same, but the geometry isn’t.

To reduce or eliminate the distortion, there are two practical options:

1. Design the visual on the report page with a correct aspect ratio
A line chart should generally stay close to a 1 : 1.6 (height : width) ratio.
When the visual already has healthy proportions, Power BI’s stretching in Focus Mode becomes far less aggressive, and the Focus view will look almost identical to the page view.
Example attached in the screenshot.

 

 

2. Create a dedicated “Zoom-In” page with the right proportions
Build your own full-screen layout for the visual with the aspect ratio you want, and expose it via a bookmark button.
This completely bypasses Focus Mode and gives you pixel-level control.

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