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Paulx99
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10 years ago

Exporting data from Power BI to Excel

Hi all   Does anybody know (as per the post below) when 'export data to CSV' was actually implemented in PBI Desktop ? I currently have PBI Desktop (Mar 2016) installed, but can't see it in there -...
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Sean
Community Champion
10 years ago

 

Paulx99 look in the top right corner of a visualization (...) - defaults to data.csv - as Greg_Deckler said you can rename but not change file format

 

EDIT:  By the way after you open the data.csv and make any change (just make a column wider) and then try to save you'll see this

And as soon as you hit NO - it will default to xlsx.

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Paulx99
Kudo Kingpin
10 years ago

Hi Sean

 

Appreciate your reply, but we might be talking at cross purposes here. I'm not interested in exporting the data from a visualisation in the Report screen to either CSV or Excel. What I want to be able to do is to export data from the Data screen to Excel. That's why I was looking for a File -> Export -> Excel option in the File menu. But there is no such option and there is no CSV option there either.

 

Paul