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Anonymous
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data does not show in data load

Hi is it possible to make a visualisation like that in Excel - ie with filtering?

I cannot see in the data screen - any of my loaded data - the visualisations are fine.

Thank you

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edhans
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There is no "Excel" visual with filtering, etc. You can either:

  • use a table visual - this is most like an Excel table
  • use the Matrix visual - this is most like an Excel pivot table

then either provide user filtering via slicers or the filter pane.



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Anonymous
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If you want Power BI to act and feel like excel I think you're going to be disappointed however, you can use Power Query ( by clicking on transform data button) which will allow you to shape your data in an easier to use format. 

 

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Anonymous
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Thank you 🙂

but do you know why the Excel data does not show in the data section?  Normally it does!

Jo

dax
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Hi @Anonymous ,

What did you mean of " Excel data does not show in the data section"? Did you mean that you miss some data when you connect table in Excel? Or what feature did you want to get in Excel? If you want to view source data , you could try to view it like below

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If this is not what you want, please correct me and inform me more information.

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Zoe Zhi

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Anonymous
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Hi I am not able to show you the image - but the screen where is has at the extreme left 
relationships, then the middle icon is data, the top icon is visualisations (From the home tab)  when I click on data - it does not show the file but I can see it when I do a query.

Why does the "data" page not show?  It usually does.

 

Sorry I cannot make it clearer without being able to upload an image

 

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