Previously a Premium only feature, Paginated Reports now only require Pro
To quote Microsoft’s definition – “Paginated reports are well suited for viewing reports as pages, printing as PDF, exporting to Excel, or generating documents. A sales detail report where you want to see row-level detail data for specific region/industry/customer and perhaps export it to Excel or print as accessible PDF would be best served by a paginated report.”
Learn More
Read the official Blog post announcing this change
And “when to use paginated reports in Power BI“
Microsoft Learn has a free Paginated Report in a Day course
Johnny Winter as a Paginated Report playlist in his YouTube channel “GreySkull Analytics”
Final Thoughts
Building paginated reports requires learning a new piece of software called “Report Builder”. It’s fiddly and not much fun. I was encouraged to see Microsoft’s blog mention “Expect to see incremental paginated report web authoring features every month.”
