Data Import and Transformation: Laying the Foundation Your journey begins with the crucial step of importing data into Power BI.

Learn how to use Microsoft's free Excel visualization tool Power BI Desktop to easily create interactive dashboards in Excel spreadsheets ...

To import this data, launch Power BI as you normally do, and close the information window. In the default window, click the Excel icon next to Get Data in the menu.

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.

Data visualization applications such as Microsoft’s Power BI and Tableau can unlock the value of data. This article explores how Power BI works.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to import data from Google Sheets into Microsoft Power BI. We’ll also review how to import Microsoft Excel data into Google Sheets and vice versa.

Power BI won’t be the only way for this feature to work, though. When you import data into Excel, you can now transform it into a data type with Power Query.