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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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    WayneM on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:04

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

    Absolutely essential, I spend ages trying to make sure the cards and charts all line up correctly where it should just be a quick drag.

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    Jason Thomas on 05 Jul 2020 22:03:38

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

    Agreed... Very important!

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    James Cameron on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:59

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

    If consumers are sent to the Reports from the dashboard, allow information creators to structure the information as per the dashboard with gridlines and snap too etc....

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    José on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:59

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

    Great! Indeed, a kind of help like that of "sticky" objects in Powerpoint would be also very helpful

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    Samuel V on 05 Jul 2020 22:02:55

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

    Yes please! It's important to align all different controls in a dashboard, so any visual aids will be helpful.

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    abhishek sreesaila on 05 Jul 2020 21:57:10

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

    It will help us design better reports easily with the visual cues rather than second guessing the alignment

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    Derrick Han on 05 Jul 2020 21:57:01

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

    When creating reports, it's really hard to align two different objects (charts or tables). Can we have a magnetic alignment helper?