Power BI and Excel work together super well, and you can use them together in a few ways depending on what you want to do. Here's the basic rundown:
- Launch Power BI Desktop and click 'Blank report' to start fresh.
- Click 'Get Data' in the Home tab, then select 'Excel' from the common data sources.
- Navigate to your Excel file location, select it, then click 'Open'.
- In the Navigator window, check the boxes next to the sheets or tables you want to import. You can preview the data on the right.
- Click 'Load' to import the data directly.
- Your Excel data now appears in the Fields pane. Drag and drop fields to create visualizations in your report canvas.
