on 20 Apr 2018 02:40:58
Please allow Copy/Paste functionality from Power BI Desktop. We often need to recreate PBI reports in Excel just so we can Copy tables or charts and paste into PowerPoint or simply email it. Need stronger integration with other Office products. Copy/paste seems so basic.
Note: Our company uses PBI Desktop and PBI Report Server (on SQL server) - cloud services are not an option because of Protected Health Information.
Administrator on 17 Nov 2018 01:46:04
We shipped copy and pasting visuals between .pbix files in November. You can learn more about this feature here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-november-2018-feature-summary/#copyPaste This is in addition to the copy data features we added in September: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-september-2018-feature-summary/#copy Note that you can get reports into PowerPoint using the export to PowerPoint feature, and if you want specific improvements make sure to vote on those ideas. If you want to copy an image to your clipboard instead of the actual visual so you can reuse it anywhere, make sure to vote on this idea: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/11698812-copy-screenshot-of-visual-to-clipboard And you can vote on this idea for more copy data scenarios (such as whole table of data to clipboard) https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/6696392
- Comments (91)
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
Come on PBI team... this is truly basic staff !
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
I'm truly embarrassed when clients ask me how can it be that POWER BI has so many great feature but this is not supported.
Pls. add it !
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
This should be a feature! Annoying that users have to export to .csv to simply copy one or two fields.
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
Users who are consuming the content of the dashboards and reports often discover stories that they want to share with colleagues.
Whilst taking a screenshot and cropping it is a simple work-around, it would be very useful to be able to select a visual, hit a copy button and paste it into a report, email etc.
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
It is embarrassing. Copy/Paste is around since 70's. Get your act together.
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
Why don't you take a screenshot? Or are you saying the pasted visual needs to be still functioning?
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
'+1 This is basic and important action
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
No idea why we have to ask for simple feature like this. If PowerBi is intended for sharing reports around office, top level users will want to copy data. No one wasn't to click export to csv everytime they want to copy few rows of data. Thanks
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
Everytime I have to export data just to copy a few cells, a virtual tree is chopped down XD
Please, Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V
RE: Copy/Paste from Power BI Desktop
Everything said below, ditto