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tzvikei
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback

This thread was created to gather feedback and communicate over the new Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feature in PowerBI.com.   Ask questions, suggest features, or leave general feedback. We will ...
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andrewporter
Advocate III
8 years ago

I absolutely agree with this.

 

We're trying to generate a PowerPoint with branded content and a background image. Firstly, background images don't show up in PowerPoint exports which is really annoying. So we are just trying to use an Image, but that makes the whole page clickable pointing to the Power BI website unless you remove the hyperlinks...

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Fraukje
Advocate II
8 years ago

Yeah, currently we use the export to PowerPoint a lot, and we use a macro to remove all the hyperlinks that are automatically embedded.

 

However, it would be great if it is possible to export to PowerPoint without those hyperlinks embedded, or an option somewhere to enable/disable this.

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    andrewporter
    Advocate III
    8 years ago

    Yep. I saw that macro as well, but we're trying to generate decks for non-technical folks. I can't have them going in and running...

     

        Dim slide As slide
    Dim index As Long
    Dim counter As Long
    counter = 0
    For Each slide In ActivePresentation.Slides
        For index = slide.Hyperlinks.Count To 1 Step -1
            slide.Hyperlinks(index).Delete
            counter = counter + 1
        Next index
    Next slide
    MsgBox ("Removed " + CStr(counter) + " links")
    • Fraukje's avatar
      Fraukje
      Advocate II
      8 years ago

      I totally agree with you. Macros are already quite technical for non-technical folks!