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Anonymous
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Connecting Power BI to Excel spreadsheet from web browser?

How can I connect an Excel spreadsheet that exists on the web browser into Power BI?

 

Copying and pasting the link into the web option does not work.

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v-frfei-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Did you want to connect to an excel hosted on One Drive? Please refer to the online document.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-use-onedrive-business-links

 

For excel file hosted in dropbox, please refer to these cases.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Connecting-to-data-source-hosted-on-Dropbox/td-p/67946/page/3

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Data-source-hosted-on-Dropbox/td-p/47882

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
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v-frfei-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Did you want to connect to an excel hosted on One Drive? Please refer to the online document.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-use-onedrive-business-links

 

For excel file hosted in dropbox, please refer to these cases.

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Connecting-to-data-source-hosted-on-Dropbox/td-p/67946/page/3

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Data-source-hosted-on-Dropbox/td-p/47882

 

Community Support Team _ Frank
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the others find it more quickly.

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