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Copy text from slicers and tables

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on 15 Mar 2016 00:54:51

It will be very useful if we could easily copy text displayed on tables cells, and slicers to clipboard to reusing them on other applications or in formulas.

Administrator on 07 Mar 2019 17:46:48

You can copy from table and matrix visuals by right-clicking and choosing Copy Values. Thanks for supporting this idea!

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Jeffrey L on 06 Jul 2020 00:13:43

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

Please don't mark things completed when they're not. When I right click the matrix visual, I'm only given the option to "copy value," there is no "copy values." So, the user would have to copy each cell and paste somewhere else, which is no faster than typing it in yourself.

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Eswar on 05 Jul 2020 23:56:23

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

I am unable to copy the content like it was intended to, may be I am doing it wrong but when I right click on a matrix visual (for example)... it does ask me to few options (copy value, copy selection, copy visual)

1. copy value = just copies that cell data and I am able to paste that in Excel cell
2. copy selection = just copies the first column header, and the current row value, but does not copy all the values of the entire table
3. copy visual = does not copy anything as I was unable to paste anything in Excel

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:25:20

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

Common Excel this is a real issue rather than NLP!

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Maria on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:58

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

Function ctrl+C and ctrl+V dosn't work in PowerBI. In my opinion it's very useful option which should be added to PowerBI.
At this moment, we are not able to copy long numbers from PowerBi, it's waste of time for us.

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BRIAN CORPUS on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:20

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

This needs to work, even saying that it is a feature is weird. It's like making a program but not writing in saving. Sounds like the program developers and the product designers aren't on the same page. It should just be able to do this function and claiming it as a feature is just weird...

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Teresa B on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:06

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

This feature is definitely needed. Not having this feature is making me wish I had stayed with Tableau.

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Azad Naik on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:49

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This feature would be very helpful for the customers to have. Why its taking so long to implement it? This request has been since over 2 years now.

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Christen on 05 Jul 2020 23:21:35

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Can't believe this isn't an option!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:58

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The only thing holding me back from asking my manager to implement this system for everyone is this stupid copy/paste issue. So frustrating!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:56

RE: Copy text from slicers and tables

and copy text from html viewer