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bmathis
10 years agoFrequent Visitor
Outlook .MSG as Data Source
Is there a data source option that will read an outlook MSG file? Rather than sending the data in a table as an Excel attachment, this system sends the table directly in the message body. I've playe...
fso
10 years agoAdvocate II
I'm afraid I don't have an answer using PowerBI. But if you store .msg files, I assume you have to open and export the files from Outlook anyway. So if you're doing that, why not use VBA to create a nicely formatted Excel file that lists the desired email contents in table format and then use that as the data source for PowerBI?