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andywil456
Advocate II
10 years ago
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Import Data from an Excel sheet in SharePoint

I'm trying to get data from an Excel spreadsheet stored on SharePoint.   I have tried doing this by the URL path but it cannot find at file level. The only way that seems to work, is  to download th...
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Hi andywil456,

    You can import data from Excel stored in SharePoint to Power BI Desktop by using “Get Data>Web” option as follows.




    Based on my test, it works as expected when I enter the URL of Excel file via the option, data is imported successfully to Power BI Desktop.


    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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Alwyn1991
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago

you may well be aware of the soultion now,

 

if you use Get Data and use sharepoint folder use the sharepoint site name and when in transform data navigate to the file you want this also helps when uploading the report the credentials login for scheduled refresh also