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Text wrap in tables, cards, etc.! -- in dashboards and reports.

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Margaret Djenohan-Sparkman on 12 Nov 2014 03:57:53

I created an Excel workbook with an XML feed from A.W.rd.A.Day: http://wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml. I created a table in PV; text in the description of the word is cut off. I upload to PBI and create a tile. Text in the tile is also cut off. Not cool!

Administrator on 11 May 2017 06:38:12

In the May release of Power BI Desktop, we launched the preview of the new table visual. Both the new table and new matrix visuals have support for word wrap in cells. To learn more about the new table visual, check out this blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-may-feature-summary/

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1c05d78e 848d-4938-8be6-6183931e1c6d on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:17

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By far this is the biggest barrier in sizing columns adequately in tables and matrices. Thank you for your speedy efforts to allow word wrap on table headers!

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fc1ac2ca 3894-4237-902f-a0511ca29ce3 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:16

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can you please give us an update on this one? its urgent for many of us

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26ba2c25 dc9b-41fc-a816-0595b9f89091 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:59

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Glad to see this is getting attention. I've found myself wishing to have word wrapping capability several times recently.

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b893a0fb 1cd5-48c4-9b1f-066386625742 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:48

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My Power BI project is stumped without this.

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5d7f38a0 34ff-4cbb-92ed-581d4af05181 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:44

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This is the most important feature to add in my opinion and cannot believe it's not there yet...it's stopping many customer deployments for me. Long text viewer is single only plus it's a custom vis and won't work on export to ppt!!!!!!

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53848ae2 04e4-4eed-87ea-0ab46734f1b1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:19

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Word Wrap very important as is Aliases - Report presentations otherwise appear quite unwieldy and clumsy.

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8a96940e dcdb-48e2-97c6-f454a6d5a9aa on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:08

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Hi @Amanda (or @Charles Sterling), On behalf of the pain documented from the community in the comments below can we have an ETA or update on this word wrap feature ?

I too am just doing a simple tabular report showing project progress % completion and would like to word wrap the project titles but I have just discovered this feature isn't available or am I missing something obvious ? I now feel the same pain.

The LongTextViewer from @Lukasz Pawlowski is cool but only works for 1 column with limited formatting..It is just not for tabular reports.

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caa71b04 89b4-41e1-b9a2-04358a0f08d6 on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:04

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you can add wrap option under transform option in Edit query option

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99b12add 06e4-44a4-a0f9-9dde80f91eff on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:19

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There is now a custom visual that can be imported - Long TextViewer.
Seems to work well for me.

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8823383a 18a9-4f99-b539-e484234b57a4 on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:11

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This is a needed feature! Please allow text wrap in tables.