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Excel on Local Drive - Refresh
Am still a novice in PowerBi and currently evaluating it for a new company I work for. I have used it in a previous company and trying to recreate the same visualizations I did in my old job but runn...
Hey,
not sure if I understand you correctly.
The easiest way is to file placed on your desktop.
First Month
Create an xlsx file
Create a PBIX file using Power BI Desktop, connect to the XLSX as datasource.
Create your reports
Publish the Power BI report to the service
Following Months
Update the xlsx file
Refresh the data in the Power BI Desktop file
Re-Publish the Power BI file to the Service
Hopefully this provides you an idea to successfully use Power BI again :-)
Regards,
Tom