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Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback
Dear Microsoft Power BI Team,
I really really like Power BI, and I REALLY hope you make the PPT export function work properly. Currently it has a lot of small detailed issues that make using it pretty much useless. Just make it print out what I see in Power BI as is, static pictures are just fine. Currently it is not possible and make working with it extremenly frustrating. Here is a list of issues I've encoutered:
-If a graph's edege (the stupid large white box surrounding every graph that makes placing stuff at edges impossible!) is on top of another graph the export does not function properly. Once you move one of those images in PPT you notice part of the graph is actually part of the other picture, I'll send an image to the email address you provided in the previous post.
-If a graph does not have a background the export picture should also not have a background. Why? Because I want to use in PPT slide master to finish the visual look, as visual functionalities are very limited in Power BI. Currently this is not possible, as imported pictures to PPT have background.
-Some exported graphs with background leave small white lines, I'll send an image to the provided email address
-Category label text are cut off in the PPT export even though they are not in Power BI, will also send an email of the issue
-Custom page size is not supported. The exported pictures are all over the PPT slide, not even hitting the actual slide. They are outside the PPT slide! Why I use custom page size? Well, because the graph visual editing functionalities are limited and I need to get more room to avoid the freaking scrolling bar inside a bar graph or table. Please fix that also!
-exported text is not aligned as defined in Power BI, text somehow always get centered in the export
-if text on top of a box -> everything get just messed up in the export and makes it totally useless
-text boxes sometimes duplicated twice
-using background image makes the export useless (this has come up in the forum quite a lot and thank you for fixing it in the future)
-Only 15 pages, I create project reports for customers and the reports are long, support at least 50 pages
Thanks! Will update the list as I encouter bugs.
Please, pretty please, fix this stuff! Would help a lot in creating reports faster
Kind regards,
Ilkka M.
Clearly what people want is split into two seperate areas:
- Interactive PowerPoints
- The ability to have a print out of a report that mirrors the online version
As Ikeumlaut said "Just make it print out what I see in Power BI as is, static pictures are just fine." This is the side that I think is important and in my opinion if the print function of reports actually worked this would solve this.
In IE there is no preview option for printing, in Chrome there is a preview but the reports are still not an exact replica of the report (visuals/lines cut off etc) and also the fact that images that are in reports dont print out is a big issue.
In an ideal world people would meet around a screen and discuss visuals etc but a lot of the time people want a print out to go with these meetings and at the moment its a painful screenshot and stitch these together in paint process.
I hope this feedback is useful.
I agree with jcarville. The print options are very buggy for each browser and in the end don't work. Static images should be the most important item first and if they don't get to Power Point in the format you see as well with the filters you've added it makes both the print function and export to power point not usefulunfortunately.
