idea Drop purple border from a chart when copying to clipboard in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Drop purple border from a chart when copying to clipboard

DuncanHornby — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:36:53 GMT

When exporting a chart in arcpro 3.7 which is a set of histograms created using the split by option, ensure the purple border is not included in the export (to clipboard) as it makes that function useless when including the chart in a report as it retains the purple border.

I think the copy to clipboard is a great feature as it skips the need to export to a file, but is not useful if it retains the purple selection boundary.

A discussion of exactly what I'm talking about is here.

Re: Drop purple border from a chart when copying to clipboard - Status changed to: In Product Plan

ChristopherAllen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:36:15 GMT

Hi @DuncanHornby thanks for the Idea! You're 100% right--the purple border in this case is not necessary when the chart is exported and thus should not be displayed. This is the behavior for other chart types displayed as a grid (when the preview chart is not being shown). We will fix this, but in the meantime I wanted to point out that you can control the visibility of the mini chart selection outline in the Format tab of the Chart Properties pane. This should hide the selection outline when exported.