Getting viable data from an Excel workbook into Power BI for data visualization purposes takes some specific preparation. Here is what you need to do.

Power BI supplies a default date table that’s adequate for many time grouping requirements. Find out how to know if that table is adequate.

Download it from here. Pinning Excel elements to your Power BI dashboard Upload your Excel reports to Power BI and select a range, a table or a chart.

Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop, integrated with Excel, offers a powerful solution for transforming data into rich, interactive dashboards.

Excel can now automatically access any data published in Power BI from corporate sources you have access to: Your Power BI tables are available to you through the data types gallery.

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

If you are working with Excel spreadsheets or workbooks, juggling multiple tables of data, at some time you might need to combine them into one. Rather ...

The first method, which we call the Excel-based approach, is fairly simple and uses Excel to retrieve data from QuickBooks and load data into Power BI. The second method, which we call the QuickBooks ...

Power BI is increasingly bringing the power of data to business users, but you may need more guardrails to get the most value from it. These are the most common things organizations get wrong.