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Not all semantic models available in Excel
Following up on this: Giving Build permissions was the key. The people that couldn't see the models were simply not hitting enter when searching for the name so it was just showing models they were already using. Sometimes it's the simple things.
The "From Power BI" connector in Excel shows models differently than "Analyze in Excel" — it only shows models that have been explicitly marked as featured or that are in workspaces the user has at least Contributor access to, not just View + Build. That's likely why they're not appearing.
make sure the semantic models have "Featured" , and verify the workspace role — View permission
I looked at the users again and one of them has Member permisisons to the workspace and All permissions to the semantic model. He still can't see all the semantic models. Odd stuff.