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Pauline on 11 Jul 2018 08:20:25

Other than the Devscope Power BI addon which does not work the way I expected, Can Microsoft provide a POWER BI Add-on which allows us to insert or copy a particular visual into the word document? I'd like to copy paste a particular chart/graph from power BI web/desktop like we can copy graphs from Excel into Word. I tried to export the Power BI report into a powerpoint file but since we have over 15 pages in this PBI Report this was not allowed.

Surely Microsoft can provide this integration between their own products?

I have been using Snagit to copy-paste visuals into a 60 page report, and it's very time consuming. I would appreciate a quicker way to get these visuals into a report.

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fe28a07d 4b7b-43a5-8bbe-0ce8a899e621 on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:36

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

Agree with others. I am stunned that this wasn't already a feature. We've spent quite a bit of time integrating and learning Power BI assuming that everything in the Microsoft ecosystem played nicely together. I can't believe others don't need this.

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4e2ed990 e62a-4956-94cf-e2ae7078a9e9 on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:00

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

I can't believe that this is not getting more votes. We have moved a lot of our analysis from Excel to Power BI but desperately need a better way to paste visuals into reports in PowerPoint and Excel.

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89eea6d6 8d51-41d6-8fd9-47502aa69cfc on 05 Jul 2020 23:44:16

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

This would be a great feature for my organization as well. Our users draft a lot of policy papers, and being able to embed an interactive feature into Word would be a major bonus for us.

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1572b08f 1bea-4d0c-a0fa-5e8130acea20 on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:14

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A great need for our organisation as well, we have reports which need visuals so that executives can write a narrative for each measure in MS Word document.

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3243fe84 6587-43d6-86f5-026a1094ee1f on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:17

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

This is very much wanted it saves me a lot off time and integration between microsoft products should be in place not via subscription third party products which cost a fortune.

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bcf49052 9364-4e09-a330-ea8504ef1885 on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:10

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

Most of our users snip data and put it in a powerpoint or word document to create presentations and data stories. Having live, up-to-date would save them lot's of time in doing non-value add tasks (eg setting filters, snipping data visuals, etc) and allow them to focus on the value add of deriving insights.

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1c195370 b2bc-4d97-ac74-9dc0f86f5268 on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:07

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

'+1 for this feature.

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6fdaf704 244c-43c4-b211-e3e9909d4ab1 on 05 Jul 2020 23:35:45

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

'+1 for this!

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cff16baf 0526-447a-92a4-ecf5ccff7e0f on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:37

RE: Microsoft Word POWER BI Add-on

This seems like a no brainer - I don't want to pay for third party tools (I've no doubt DevScape do a good job) when I pay for Power BI already - and it seems like such an obvious win for MS that I can't believe it doesn't do it out of the box.

Not all consumers are happy with using a dashboard - with this I could template a report easily.

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42cd227a 4642-460f-b3ba-ef8d5cded861 on 05 Jul 2020 23:32:28

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This would save so much time