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tzvikei
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback

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gianlucacalzati's avatar
gianlucacalzati
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago

Hi,

 

I'm trying to export my report in PowerPoint and I'm facing the following problems:

 

1) if I export the report directly, I get blank pages. The well-known workaround is that I have to save it everytime before exporting it, but it's really annoying.

2) In my report I have some images and background images (used as company default template), but when I try to export to PowerPoint they disappear.

 

3) Fonts color and alignment do not match on text boxes.

 

4) Text-quality for legend and labels or x-axis labels is defintely LOW.

 

Regards,

Gianluca

  • ellbe's avatar
    ellbe
    Microsoft Employee
    9 years ago

    Thanks for your feedback!

     

    1) you only need to save it again once. From then on, it should just work.
    2) this is a known limitation. We have an item in our backlog to export background color for reports but no plans to background images at this point

    3,4) those seem to be bugs, we will look into them

     

    • jtdesouza's avatar
      jtdesouza
      Frequent Visitor
      9 years ago

      Any tips to solve this issue?  I'm trying to build a presentation for management, and the service is unable to export to PPT today.  Any workarounds would be much appreciated.

       

      Unable to export to PowerPoint
       We couldn't export your report to a PowerPoint file
      Please try again later or contact support. If you contact support, please provide these details.

       Activity IDb4c38829-da75-4855-a38a-963911cf3f0d

      Request ID5a74826a-a851-536b-d29b-9d9ad865acf8
      Correlation IDfc3cdba3-a512-fb80-c247-c07a95ce676f
      Status code500
      TimeWed Mar 22 2017 14:40:34 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
      Version13.0.1700.1439
      Cluster URI https://wabi-us-north-central-redirect.analysis.windows.net