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Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

I think this is a must not only for Power BI designers (the online one and the desktop one), but also the Power View designers (both SharePoint and Excel). We need the ability to be able to align, resize and distribute components in a dashboard/sheet. I mean the controls we normally find with office tools such as: * Alignment: Align left, right, top, bottom, centre, middle. Distribute horizontally and vertically. Snap to grid, view gridlines, set gridlines, etc. * Positioning: Being able to see and specify x and y coordinates for objects. * Sizing: Specify height and width values. I feel these requirements are long overdue since the initial release of Power View years ago.
Status: Completed
Comments
mstefancik
Advocate IV
Plus Lock aspect. After creating report lock all the items. So background does not step to the front when you click on it or the same with shapes. Also after locking the items you would not see boarders of the chart. It is really annoying to see all the boarders and by mistake move the charts.
Julian_Payne3
New Member
for the scatter plot - allow us control the SIZE of the bubble please - lots of data elements getting hidden behind others bc the bubble size cannot be controlled or scaled. Thx
cablackmon
New Member
I completely agree. This functionality would be extremely useful. It takes way to long to create a decent looking report.
abdul5270
New Member
It can be even like datazen dashboard which give good layout for the dashboard
vpfaiz
Regular Visitor
Why not offer both and provide a toggle switch to control the behaviour?
Markus
New Member
Must must must have, nothing more to say!
judit_bogos
New Member
I like my charts to be neatly organized and aligned, and so I greatly miss the alignment and and adjustment functionalities of powerpoint. So please keep on ading new functions! Thanks
sd_vsg
New Member
Would be useful to include tips on how to use said alignment and positioning controls
pbiideas1
New Member
Please add this.
mrsolomon
Frequent Visitor
Yes please add this