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Ability to align the column content

Add the ability to align the column content in tables, e.g. left- and right-aligned, centred, etc. in Power BI Desktop.

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  • TKurtz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd like to center align the column header and data, but put a background color behind just the column header and not the value. Seems I still cannot do this unless I am missing something.

  • Greg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a great feature and improve the look of presentations.

  • Ranit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, what about card alignment? For center align i use multi-row cards instead of card (that let only left align option).Still i didn't find any solution for top align etc.

  • Corleen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be great if you can align your text as in Microsoft Word.
    For eg. Align Center Left or align bottom center.
    Because in a table the text is at the top it does not look neat.

    Thank you

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    After updating to Power BI Desktop for Report Server (March 2018) I noticed that this feature has been added. I was excited. But then I published to the Report Server and the text is not aligned there. For example, my table has columns that are centre-aligned in the Desktop app and it looks great, but after publishing to RS and opening the Report in a browser, the alignment is all messed up. Weirdly, they are all right-aligned now.

  • Gaurav commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think this is the most important feature that Power BI should prioritise. It is widely being used across other Microsoft products and one of the mandatory feature for doing formatting. It would really be helpful.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can now align values within a matrix. However, I can't figure out how to center-align the column subtotals. Is this possible yet?

  • Graeme commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, please give us the formatting capability to align column data. My OCD is trolling me into oblivion without it

  • VickyD commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I hope this is implemented such that "any" text or number shown can be formatted in basic ways i.e. change font, size, color, bold, underline, italics, background, alignment, conditional formatting etc like excel. That would address pretty much all needs one would have for text display.

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