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Export slides to PowerPoint

Export slides to PowerPoint

Power BI affords us one more printish type of option and if you like using PowerPoint I think this is pretty cool. I can export a presentation to PowerPoint. I can embed an image or I can embed live data. If I embed an image then I need to choose do I want to use the current values, perhaps I've applied some filters for example, or only the default values. And I can choose to export only the current page if I wish. If there are hidden report tabs, I can also exclude those if I choose to do so. Let me click export. This will take a little longer than it takes to generate a PDF. But again, our basic unit here is the page, so in PowerPoint, each report page will become a slide of its own. If my goal was to create a report so that I could then use that report in PowerPoint, then I'd want to group my pages so that each page would be appropriate as a slide. If you think, well that's fine but that's not how I want to arrange it for print, remember that you could create a print version of…

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