PBI Canvas Sizes, Don’t Use The Default!

One of the biggest mistakes I made in my first year of developing Power BI reports was going with the standard canvas size.

I would start up a new Power BI report, put a few visualizations on the page, and then wondered why I ran out of room very, very quickly.

What a lot of newbies, and maybe some not so newbies may not know is that Power BI has a very small standard canvas size.

Not sure why this canvas size was chosen as the default. If you use it, you really won’t be able to fit much on your report page at all.

I like to keep things simple and just go with the 16×9 size resizing the canvas to, you guessed it, 1600 by 900 (height x width).

Also very popular among developers is the 1080×1920.

Whatever size you go with, I highly recommend upsizing in one way or the other from the standard canvas size.

I wish I knew this within my first year of Power BI developing reports.

And yes, I blame it entirely for my first batch of PBI reports not being something that I’d be overly proud to share nowadays, its all the canvas sizes’ fault 😂