Stop auto refresh of data of embedded visuals from Power BI in Powerpoint Slides

[Anonymous]

Dear Community,

I am helping staff across my organisation with embedding visuals with data from Power BI into PowerPoint to have interactivity and reduce manual effort with collation. The staff have expressed a need for the data to remain static as of the point in time when they were embedded into powerpoint. Currently from my understanding, once the data is refreshed for a visual, the url with the link to the visual in power bi from powerpoint will also update by itself with the latest data rather than remaining static. Is there any way to prevent the latest data in the service from flowing through to the embedded visuals in powerpoint? I would like to avoid copying the visuals as an image as these often end up with totally different formatting and colors in powerpoint compared to the original form in the report in the power bi service. Thank you for your help community.

[sw16]

Not the solution, still need to the interactivity so a saved image/export doesn't work. The live data is the issue we need to see the data at the point it was added to the PowerPoint slide rather than always live

[sw16]

I still want to interact with the data so saving as an image isn't an option but I need a way to stop the auto refresh too. Has anyone find a way to turn it off so that you have to manually go to refresh instead as it use to be

[v-tangjie-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

You can export reports to PowerPoint. The report is static; the slides retain the state of the report at the time of export.

Or you can use the "Show as saved image" option. Displays a saved image to convert the current live view to a static, non-interactive image. Then, the next time you open the presentation, you'll see the static view you saved.

Best Regards,

Neeko Tang

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