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Creating a Power BI Report in Portrait Mode

David Eldersveld controls the horizontal; David Eldersveld controls the vertical:

The default Power BI report layout uses a landscape orientation. While it’s not common to see report pages that use portrait mode, Prathy Kamasani (blog/twitter) has a notable example in Power BI here. Others have tried it as well. It’s used occasionally in other data communities or data-driven journalism. Overall, if you want to guide someone through your analysis by having them scroll like a web page, it may be an option to try.

So what happens if I create a report with a vertical layout in Power BI?

Read on for an example as well as some pros and cons of the idea.