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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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Tony on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:18

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Hello Amanda,
Any update on if this? I am looking for the word wrap in tables as well.

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Hauke on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:07

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Same is true for me. Text wrapping is needed in all kind of reports

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:02

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Yea, I agree. Formatting is key and PowerBi is lacking it.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:59

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Impossible to use Power bi without this feature for me :(

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Dave Lefler on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:55

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I agree with a lot of the comments below. MS is releasing a lot of new features and visuals in other areas, which is great, but not having some of this basic formatting makes the dashboards look amateur at best. IMHO they should shift development focus heavily onto formatting things like this, as I'm not able to use PBI as it is.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:51

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Any update... Not having these basic functions is really making this tool feel like it's a toy and not an enterprise solution.

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Anupong on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:44

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vvvvvvv (below comment): Power BI lacks a lot of basic formatting...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:19

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

Hello, Is it possible to wrap text in a Table by now?
I have a Table in a DashBoard that I would like to wrap the text because it is too long. I don't want the user to use the scroll bar.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:19

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This is a critical feature. Please prioritize this for your upcoming releases. Thank you.

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Andrew Lindner on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:18

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Please keep this issue on high priority, the inability to do text wrapping is holding up a managerial automation project.