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Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

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Sirui Sun on 09 Dec 2017 03:43:26

Currently, the Export to PowerPoint feature exports one image file per report. Update the Export to PowerPoint feature to support exporting an image per report visual instead.

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Rachid on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:15

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

I'm really struggling to understand why it was decided to scrap this feature, in the first place.
Exporting to PowerPoint (as individual elements) was one of the USP's for us to use Power BI over any other BI solution.

Unfortunately, this is not the case any more and we will have to look into other solutions.
If existing features like this get scrapped without any good reason, who knows what's next?

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Ike M on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:43

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

I like that it comes as a whole image. I just beef up my page size in BI and I get really sharp image exported that looks good on ultra hd screens. However, I would prefer the export functionality to actually export everything as vectors and charts to PPT so I could post edit graphs, text etc. and even data in PPT!

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:31

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

Since this feature was removed, the quality of the exported file dropped significantly. There is also an issue with the maps which do not expand to the level as they do in the browser. Furthermore, the file size is twice as large compared to the individual image output.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:09

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

Complètement nul la capture d'ecran. Pas besoin d'un lien pour ça, autant le faire soi-même. Le seul intérêt d'un export est d'avoir chaque visualisation indépendante.... Incompréhensible.

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Asya Sali on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:02

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

Hi, we are paying for full Power BI functionality and now this feature has been removed. It is really painful when we do not have the option to delete certain charts inside PowerPoint if there is no data in them or we just do not want to show them particularly...

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Matthew on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:28

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

Any comment if there are future plans to bring back this functionality? It's been about two months at this point.

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Andreas Rossi on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:48

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

This has really messed up our reporting since this used to work...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:29

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

Deifinetly need the separate objects export to Powerpoint back.
Current approach is very painful, particularly wanting to keep quality image.

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Ben on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:34

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

I agree with all of these comments. This change has created a significant increase in the amount of time it takes for my team to create powerpoint slides using a different aspect ratio.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:25

RE: Export to PowerPoint with individual image elements

It seems like a step backwards to have had this functionality removed.