From the course: Getting Started with Power BI

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Copy a tile as a visual

Copy a tile as a visual

- [Instructor] I'm creating a report in Microsoft Word, or perhaps a presentation in PowerPoint, or I want to place one of these charts in something I'm creating in any other application that I can use the Windows clipboard to paste from. So in order to copy this, I'm going to point to the tile that I wish to use in my report, click the More Options button, and choose Copy Visual as Image. And you need to stay here because this copy isn't going direct to the clipboard, it's being created. And then, if you want it to go to the clipboard, you need to click Copy to send it to the clipboard. Now, I'm going to switch to Microsoft Word and simply paste. I get the visualization from the tile. I get a link that I can hold Control and open this in Power BI, and I get some other information. And if you don't want one or more of these items, you just select them and delete them here in Microsoft Word. But this is how easy it is to grab a tile and place it into any other application that you can…

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