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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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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:52

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

This is issue is maddening to me! There is too much white space in so many visuals and we need to be able to better control this. An especially bad offender in this regard are the cards - heaven forbid your category label need to wrap onto a second line because then it necessitates even more white space be taken up at the top (to equal the space below the data label). Yet in other cases like for y axis titles there actually isn't enough white space between the y axis title and the category labels. Amount of white space is definitely something that needs to be controllable by users

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Matthew Montgomery on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:13

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

This thread is nearing three years old. Power BI's visuals are the first impression of the program, this is an unacceptable time to wait for such a simple fix.

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Brendan Bannon on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:38

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There is way too much wasted blank space, within visuals and at the bottom of the Windows 10 Mobile App when used on a Tablet or Desktop computer (non issue for mobile phone view).

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:37:30

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

Agree to JayZheng there is plenty of space wasted when using clustered bar chart.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:26:58

RE: All visuals have unusable/wasted white space

How is this still an issue? It has been two years.

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Sara Ricketts 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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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:23:18

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

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Josh English 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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JayZheng 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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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:18

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