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.

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

Learn Power BI basics in this beginner tutorial. Master the interface, connect data sources, clean data, and build your first data model.

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.

Excel's Power Query Editor also has the capacity to import and organize data from external sources, like a PDF, a website, or another spreadsheet. Getting into the habit of using this powerful ...

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 ...

A data lake or data warehouse can seamlessly pull data into Power BI from many sources — such as cloud-based applications (via an application programming interface), automated Excel file extractions ...