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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Importing links from excel

Hi ,   Need urgent help!   I have a table in excel as below, where the id's have hyperlink associated to it.   ID 1111 1222   I want to import this column in power bi, with the li...
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  • affan's avatar
    affan
    7 years ago

    Hi Anonymous

     

    You can extract the URLs in the excel file and then import the excel data into power bi.

     

     

     

     

     In excel you can insert the following in a new module and use it as a funciton as illustrated above.

     

    Function CopyURL(HyperlinkCell As Range)

CopyURL = HyperlinkCell.Hyperlinks(1).Address
End Function

     

    If this helped you, please mark this post as an accepted solution and like to give KUDOS .

     

    Regards,

    Affan

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

Hi Anonymous,

 

It is not available to directly load the hyperlinks generated in Excel file into Power BI desktop. You could take affan's workaround that extract the URL first in Excel, then, set the data category of that link column to "Web URL" in Power BI desktop.

 

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu