From Excel to Insight: How Power BI Integration is Changing the Game

Power BI and Excel can be integrated in several ways to allow you to use the strengths of each tool to better analyze and visualize your data. Here are few examples of how you can use Power BI and Excel together:

1. Import Excel data into Power BI: You can use Power BI to connect to an Excel file and import data from it. This allows you to use the powerful visualization and analysis capabilities of Power BI to explore your Excel data.
2. Publish Excel data to Power BI: You can use Power BI to publish data from an Excel file to the Power BI service, where it can be shared with other users and accessed from any device.
3. Link Excel data to Power BI: You can use Power BI to create a link to an Excel file, which allows you to use the data in Excel as a live data source in Power BI. Any changes made to the Excel data will be reflected in the Power BI dataset.
4. Use Excel to create custom visuals in Power BI: You can use Excel to create custom visuals for Power BI, using the Power BI Visualization API. This allows you to create visuals that are not available in the standard Power BI visual library.
5. Use Power BI to create Excel reports: You can use Power BI to create reports and dashboards that can be exported to Excel. This allows you to use the visualization and analysis capabilities of Power BI to create professional-looking reports that can be shared with others or further analyzed in Excel.

You can import an Excel workbook file from your local drive into Power BI by using this tool. You must make sure that each column has an appropriate name before you may import data from the excel sheet.

XLS File Import

Go to My Workspace File Local File in Power BI Service.

You can start creating the reports in Power BI when the dataset has been loaded. The “DATASETS” option in the Power BI menu lists the imported dataset.

Click Datasets twice. Next, select the Explore tab. A new Report Canvas will open as a result. Under the Fields option on the right side of the page, you may access every field from your table and the related columns.

Choose any graphic and include the fields from the table to produce a report.