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Excel installation

‎10-19-2020 02:08 AM

Does I have to install Excel in order to refresh a Power BI desktop report that have connection to Excel?

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‎10-19-2020 03:57 AM

@Anonymous Inorder for refreshing the power bi report you need to keep the report either in Onedrive or in Sharepoint online and your refresh will work fine without any gateway configuration

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‎10-19-2020 03:57 AM

@Anonymous Inorder for refreshing the power bi report you need to keep the report either in Onedrive or in Sharepoint online and your refresh will work fine without any gateway configuration

Hope it resolves your issue? Please consider accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.


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‎10-19-2020 03:10 AM

@Anonymous , at least oledb driver engine would be needed

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