# How to export to PowerPoint in Tableau Desktop 2019.1 and newer

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-01-11
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, dashboards, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-export-to-powerpoint-in-tableau-desktop-2019-1-and-newer
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/Cg22w3bejJM

I show how to use the export-to-PowerPoint feature added in Tableau Desktop 2019.1, which exports your dashboard tabs to a PowerPoint file in one move. I also cover its limitations and why embedding a live, interactive dashboard isn't a secure option.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2019.1 lets you export dashboards straight to PowerPoint in a single step instead of saving images manually
- The export captures every tab in the dashboard, with each becoming its own slide
- Sheets that aren't laid out in dashboards get squeezed to fit the slide and can become hard to read, and you can't scroll within a PowerPoint slide
- To keep interactivity such as hovering and drilling into data, give people access to Tableau Server or Tableau Online rather than trying to embed a live dashboard
- Embedding a dashboard via a web object inside PowerPoint is a security risk and best avoided

## Chapters

- 0:00 Exporting a dashboard to PowerPoint
- 0:48 Limitations and fitting issues
- 1:34 Embedding and keeping interactivity

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-export-to-powerpoint-in-tableau-desktop-2019-1-and-newer

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