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    Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

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    Brett Gerhardi on 24 May 2016 16:44:02

    Often we need to expand on an idea from one report further and copy and paste visuals/pages from one PBIX to another. This would be a huge productivity and quality benefit.

    Administrator on 17 Nov 2018 01:54:09

    We are excited to announce that this shipped in our November update of PBI Desktop: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/#copyPaste For those asking, it will be included in the next version of Power BI Desktop for Report Server as well.

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    Esteban Cioccio on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:06

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    please add this one

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    HotCakes on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:55

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Please add this :) We had it in QlikView and it made a world of difference, as then you can really use Power BI like the new Excel.

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    Esmanur Acungil on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:54

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Yes, please add this one!

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    Daniel Baksa on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:42

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    This would be a very useful tool. I'm able to do this in QlikView, it makes it much easier to build new reports and harvest pervious work. Caution is key and if underlying data does not support the chart it just does not work. We remove or fix the chart if possible.

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    ben. on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:36

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Absolutely needed. Frequently have multiple people working on sub-pages of different reports. Let the data dependencies break if you have to - feels like a waste of time to recreate visuals you want replicated.

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    AJ on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:32

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I'd like to see this too

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    James on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:28

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I'd like to see this too

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    Preity on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:08

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    I vote Yes! We need this functionality.

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    Braden on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:04

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    This absolutely needs to be developed to make Power BI a robust development tool.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:03

    RE: Allow copy and paste between different PBIX's

    Even if you could copy the fonts, colours and basic formatting components across pbix files would be a great start and give new desktops files a familiar look and feel. This is about productivity more than anything else