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Preventing Accidental Visual Replacements in Power BI Desktop

One common issue I have faced while designing reports is accidentally replacing an existing visual.

Here's the situation:
- You are focused on building a new visual and click an option from the Visualizations pane.
- But, without realizing it, you had already selected an existing small or medium-sized visual on the canvas.
- Instead of creating a new visual, the existing one gets replaced, forcing you to undo the change and start over.

This can be frustrating, especially when working with dashboards that have multiple compact visuals where it is easy to miss what was selected.

Suggestion:
- Introduce a highlighted selection indicator (stronger than the current thin border), OR
- Provide a simple pop-up warning like: You are about to replace an existing visual - proceed? when switching chart types with a selected visual.

This small UX improvement would help avoid accidental overwrites and save time for report developers.

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