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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.

     

     

    Paul Zheng
    Community Support Team
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venal
Memorable Member
6 years ago

chammel 

I tried to refer the links and it is not mentioed about deprecation.

 

Please refer the below link.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-publish-from-excel

 

If the issue is persists, try to upload the file from "Power Bi Service". Please refer the below link for alternate solution.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-excel-workbook-files

 

If you already raised a support ticket to the team for investigation, please share us here to track on this issue.

 

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BR

venal.