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chammel
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6 years ago
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Power BI Publisher for Excel Retired?

I recently received a response from the Microsoft support team mentioning Power BI Publisher for Excel is being retired.    Response from Microsoft was: "I do understand your concern and the import...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    6 years ago

    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:

    1. Allow users to connect to their data in Power BI and create pivot tables and charts for further analysis in Excel
    2. 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.

     

     

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GMRevenite
Advocate I
6 years ago

Thanks Goofr 

That is a good post.

But what isn't clear are a couple of things and hoping you can clarify:

 

1. You need O365 to use the Get Data > Connect to Power BI Dataset.

    What about people on say Excel 2016.

    Also I've read other sites that say O365 but then only certain SKU's but doesn't say which SKU.

 

2. Power BI Ribbon is no longer available and the new get data feature isn't available.

    Why wouldn't you keep the Power BI Ribbon until the new get data feature for excel is available

 

3. The new Excel Feature is coming but that could be December, as there is no date posted right?

 

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Anonymous
Not applicable
5 years ago

Yes, December, but you didn't mention the year 😉 Other features that were announced to replace already retired features didn't come for over a year and still counting...