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    Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

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    Pedro Innecco on 07 Jan 2015 17:27:10

    I think this is a must not only for Power BI designers (the online one and the desktop one), but also the Power View designers (both SharePoint and Excel).

    We need the ability to be able to align, resize and distribute components in a dashboard/sheet. I mean the controls we normally find with office tools such as:

    * Alignment: Align left, right, top, bottom, centre, middle. Distribute horizontally and vertically. Snap to grid, view gridlines, set gridlines, etc.

    * Positioning: Being able to see and specify x and y coordinates for objects.

    * Sizing: Specify height and width values.


    I feel these requirements are long overdue since the initial release of Power View years ago.

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    James on 05 Jul 2020 22:05:34

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Yes, totally need to have these options available.

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    Martha Skjellerup on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:53

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Alignmet lines or design grid is also something I need

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    Martha Skjellerup on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:50

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    It has nothing to do with excel, I want to be able to align the objects when I am doing a report in the power bi desktop, so they are organised when I click on the objects from the dashbaord.

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    Udii Bat-Och on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:43

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Excel does great job giving us control over positioning, grid. PowerPoint gives us line where everything else falls, so we can align with rest of the charts/text, etc.

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    Teodoro on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:42

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Agree all are very important

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:42

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    This would save me so much time!!! Would be very nice for all those perfectionists out there.

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    hayashi on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:35

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Would like to have some 'Grid ruler' features and snap to grid.

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    Tim on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:26

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Totally agree ... alignment is a must

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    Jon Kelling on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:21

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    It appears that measures are always right-aligned. CONCATENATEX(VALUES(...)) should be left-aligned by default at the very least.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:21

    RE: Add alignment, positioning and sizing controls for Power BI/View report designers

    Provide the ability to align visuals with each other on the canvas in the same way that you can align shapes in Excel or PPT