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All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

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Adrian on 25 May 2016 00:09:53

When placing a visual on the screen, there is no way to get it to fill the entire space of the container that it is in, there is always white space around it. Being able to either fill that white space, or enter a negative X/Y value to align it to the top of the report page would be a useful. Examples of this would be placement of a logo on the report by getting it closer to the top/edge of a report page.

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9026e115 320b-43d0-930d-27260df744f6 on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:15

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Massive waste of real estate - need to go edge to edge please!

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0fc18f3d 7aaf-4a2b-977b-36bb9ec4d5b2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:18

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

With buttons/bookmarks/QA this has become even more important

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4bc3e640 4ac0-446f-abd2-bb96ba5ce33d on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:29

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Very frustrating to not be able to build a dashboard but always have report pages I must "pin live" to keep the spacing that actually works. This destroys any chance of a usable phone-based view.

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3c44fb87 814c-4ec7-8c14-49b309f22a4c on 05 Jul 2020 23:13:24

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Particularly when using clustered bar chart.

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:18

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Particularly when using the Power BI App on a tablet, there is a lot of unusable grey space above and below reports

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cd804f01 d06d-425e-93f9-bfa7711e6247 on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:47

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Agree with this. Also makes it difficult to fit multiple charts in one place. While you can make something look nice by overlapping charts with a blank background color, it messes up the tool tips when you hover over a chart, because you now have 3 or more stacked on top of each other.

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c4439f19 9722-4e45-8a19-dd324f9f5dd4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:55:46

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Options to adjust the width of a bar chart would fit in here as well. There is too much white space on the reports, with no obvious ways of removing or reducing it.

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8326cf12 0637-4ec5-89d0-300c06ceabcf on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:30

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Another example is when you want to create a single horizontal stacked bar chart. Impossible now with all that wasted space around it.

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5e678afd 6e35-4b23-b7a7-931c7e538511 on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:26

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Would really like to see something to reduce the wasted space. I especially notice this on any Live Page pins.