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Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

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vetabz on 13 Apr 2017 22:45:23

I so wish that you consider providing the ability to "Apply Width to all Data Columns" and maybe to Rows as well. This can be just a toggle (checkbox).

My current experience was to resize each of the 90-day worth of data and it was not very productive and I had to do this each time a new batch comes in.

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Larius Woodson on 06 Aug 2020 18:58:32

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

I cannot understand why this feature is missing from Power BI, but it seems that setting column width in a table or matrix would be a great standard feature.

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Iseron on 10 Jul 2020 17:20:38

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

this is a basic feature and the workarounds are a joke and complex! but for matrix DO NOT WORK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0gc_6wtL0

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:18

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

This is simple but important. Column Charts placed above a table or matrix is a common scenario which requires this alignment feature. The 3rd party visuals that look to do this just don't have the same quality and functionality as the standard Microsoft visuals.

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Chris Neil on 06 Jul 2020 00:15:17

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this would be very useful, PBI is about automation so having to update the visualisation of the matrix whenever a new col is added to the dataset isn't great at all

e.g. My matrix shows months as cols, products as rows, and sales data as values. The matrix shows the last three full months of sales. I have to update the report on the first of over month.

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GOUY on 06 Jul 2020 00:14:24

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

Actuellement la présentation des rapports, notamment le contenu de certaines cellules qui peut être tronqué, n'est pas optimisée et difficilement présentable. Merci d'avance.

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Sandro Oliveira on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:15

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It will be very useful. Please, make it so!

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Alex Robé on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:39

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Would be so useful for many e.g. KPI status over time etc.
Thanks!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:13

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

As the matrix is sometimes the only way to calculate results on several columns, it make sense and logical to be able to control the width of columns in one step.
Please make it possible !!!

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Power BI User on 06 Jul 2020 00:12:07

RE: Ability to "Apply Width to All Columns" of Table, Matrix & Matrix Preview

PLEASE! MAKE IT SO!!

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Janos Borbely on 06 Jul 2020 00:11:41

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To create a professional looking (if it makes any sense to Microsoft) visualization, it is a very basic feature.

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