Hi, I'm Tom Blessing. I'm an expert at helping small to mid-sized companies adopt Power BI. I'm also a recovering investment banker, with deep experience applying technology to otherwise manual data problems. I have dual degrees in Finance and Technology Management from Indiana University.

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If you want to share your Power BI visuals in a Microsoft Word document, you have two main options to choose from.

You're mainly dealing with image-like files, so it's a little clunky to get them into a text-based app like Word. However - all hope is not lost.

In this blog post, I'll explore two different methods for embedding Power BI visuals in Word documents.

Method 1: Easiest - Taking Screenshots

1. Open your Power BI report in Power BI Desktop or the Power BI Service.

2. Navigate to the page or visual you want to embed in your Word document.

3. Take a screenshot of the visual by pressing the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard or using a screenshot tool like Snipping Tool (Windows) or Grab (macOS). (If you're working off two computer monitors, you can use "CTRL + SHIFT + Print Screen" to only capture the active screen (aka, just one of the two monitors). Your screen shot will look something like this:

4. Open your Microsoft Word document.

5. Paste the screenshot into your Word document by pressing "Ctrl+V" (Windows) or "Command+V" (macOS).

6. Crop, resize, and position the screenshot as needed within your Word document.

Method 2: Exporting to PDF --> Importing the PDF into Word

This method will create a link in your Word document. Clicking on the link will open the PDF containing your Power BI Report. The images are not directly in your Word document, only a link to the file containing the images. 

1. Open your Power BI report in Power BI Desktop.

2. Go to File, then Export. Choose Export to PDF and save your file where you can find it.
3. Next, open Word and go to Insert on the Ribbon. Click Object, then Object again from the drop down. 
4. Choose the Create From File tab, then click Browse and find your PDF file. 

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