Issue: After import Excel book contents, visuals do not move/scale

Power BI Desktop Issue: Visuals do not move and scale and remove after Importing Excel book contents. When select the visual, any handle for move/resize is not exist. Re-produce step: 1....

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rrosendahl

Frequent Visitor

9 years ago

Hi Yoshihirok,

I got the exact same thing today.. and I still don't know why it happends. Hope that there will be a answer from Microsoft. I used the following workaround: Just delete one of the relationships between tables (in Power BI desktop) that you've made in your Excel file. Create this relationship again (in Power BI Desktop).

After making the new (but same) relation you should be able to move and resize your visuals.

Got a feeling that the full Excel datamodel freezes Power BI Desktop, for what ever reason...

Hope it helps.

Kind Regards,

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