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Power BI Publisher for Excel Retired?
chammel
This meassage is confirmed by our team, as of April 1st, 2020, users will not be able to download the Power BI publisher for Excel. Microsoft will cease its support for the tool on June 1st.The publisher for Excel included the following functionalities:
- Allow users to connect to their data in Power BI and create pivot tables and charts for further analysis in Excel
- Allow to pin a selected range in an Excel sheet to a Power BI dashboard
Alternatives
As an alternative to functionality 1, users can launch the ‘Analyze in Excel’ function from within Power BI service.
As an alternative to functionality 2, user can either Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from Excel or capture a selected range in an Excel sheet, using any clipping tool -> open the target dashboard in Power BI.com -> click ‘Add tile’ -> chose ‘image option’ -> upload the captured image.
Paul ZhengCommunity Support Team
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In the meantime you can use the "Analyze in Excel" functionallity.
Yep, That's obvious.
But not a great experience compared to being able to connect to your Power BI Datasets straight from excel!!!!
You can connect directly to a dataset.
You have to go now to Data/Get Data/From PowerBI Dataset
Can you?
When is this feature available and on which version of excel?
I don't see it with M365 or Excel 2016
Excel Version 2006 (Build 13001.20198)