Formatting issues including format painter and font size

[phteven79]

I've come across a number of issues with formatting in Power BI, not sure if they are bugs or inadequacies and if they are known or not.

• The format painter isn't working when I try to use it between text boxes. Either by selecting the visualisation itself or specific text within the source and destination.
• Formatting applied to a text box isn't entirely retained in the text formatting pop up, specifcally colour. If Format painter won't work on text boxes I can't see anywhere to know exactly what shade the text is to replicate it on other visualisations. I shouldn't have to keep manual notes on these changes outside of the software.
• Font size for the same font across different types of visualisations is of different proportions. I have a card that has a category label font of Arial Unicode MS at size 10. However if I apply that same font and size to text in a text box the size 10 appears as small as you would see in a typical MS Office document. For some reason size 10 in a visualisation is much bigger than size 10 elsewhere. I have to set the text in my text box to size 14 for it to match. This isn't an issue from data label to text font, just category label it seems.

These seem like genuine issues that needs work?

[v-shex-msft · Accepted solution]

HI @phteven79,

Format painter is used to format visuals, it seems not works on text content which stored in textbox.

I'd like to suggest you refer to below link to know more about format painter: Format Painter

Sample:

Two card visuals with different font family and size.

Choose one card visual, click on format painter and you will find the arrow becomes to brush icon.

Use brush arrow click on other visual, then it will format as card A.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng