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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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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:22:25

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

    How is this feature enabled ? The status says completed... but it CANNOT be done on a dashboard.

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    Chris99 on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:33

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

    Still not possible on a dashboard

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    Vanessa on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:50

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

    How is this marked as complete when there is no alignment option for cards?

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    Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 23:01:23

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

    '@Geo There are align and distribute controls available, as well as send back/forward.

    SEE: https://imgur.com/a/Va5E3

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    Sampath Venkataraman on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:34

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

    Yes it will bring more control

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    Geo on 05 Jul 2020 22:59:00

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

    Why is this marked as completed? It's September 2017, and all I see is Show Gridlines and Snap Objects to Grid as far as any alignment tools are concerned. I just went through my report of 24 tabs and roughly 250 individual elements and aligned and sized everything by hand using X, Y, Height, and Width numbers under General Formatting. It's a good thing my 10-key is still pretty fast.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:56:22

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

    This says completed but I still don't see a way to align the text...

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:54:49

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

    Yes please add this

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    Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:30

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

    Please add this.

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    Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:17:32

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

    Would be useful to include tips on how to use said alignment and positioning controls