Composite layouts
Composite layouts
The old all-in-one report layout is split into a body layout for structure, a theme for look and feel, and a header footer layout. Theme and header footer are applied at runtime, so the same report can be run in different ways.
Area: Reporting and analytics. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 2 min across 1 video.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
Quotes
- 0:06 "This video is about a completely new cool thing in document reporting called composite layouts." - States the topic: a new way of structuring document report layouts.
- 0:19 "very sad if you want to turn it off, you can do it at least for now." - Signals that the opt-out switch may not stay forever.
- 1:40 "And applying here means it happens at runtime. So, you can actually have the same report um you can run it in different ways." - Explains the design decision: theme and header footer are applied at runtime, not baked into the layout.
Caveats mentioned
- The presenter says you can turn it off, at least for now.
Documented features match
- Reuse header/footer layouts across document reports - medium confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573326. Composable layouts feature
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: reporting, layouts, word, branding
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.