Paginated Report Background image

[diouckdiouck]

Hey there,

I'm trying to do something very simple. I have a blank report, I am just trying to apply a background image to it and export it to Word. The image that I use as a background is embbeded. 

It works fine when I export the report to PDF. However when I try to export it to Word it does not work. 

How can we use a background image in a report and export it to Word ?

thanks in advance for your help

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @diouckdiouck,

As far as I am aware that is a limitation of the Word export feature, see the last sentence of the below article:

Newsletter-style column reports are not rendered in Word. Report body and page background images and colors are not rendered.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/paginated-reports/report-builder/export-microsoft-word-re...

As a workaround you could for example convert it via a Power Automate cloud flow. Encodian has a action for that:

https://www.encodian.com/blog/converting-pdf-documents-to-word-documents-with-microsoft-flow/