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BruceLei
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Question: Tutorial: From Excel workbook to a report in the Power BI service to Microsoft Teams

Dear Friends


I am studying Powe BI and following the tutorial as captioned. 

 

My question is why cannot generate the dataset of "Financial Sample" when i upload the workbook to PowerBI service? 

 

Must it install PowerBI desktop or other procedures I missed? 


Much appriciated if anyone can give me a answer. Thanks. 

 

Regards, 

 

Bruce 

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Anonymous
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Hi  @BruceLei ,

According to the official restrictions, Power BI Service to load Excel workbooks does not need to go through Power BI Desktop, but you need to format the data as a table first.

vyangliumsft_0-1669789268395.png

On the Home tab, in the Styles group, select Format as Table.

vyangliumsft_1-1669789268397.png

Refer to:

Tutorial: From Excel workbook to the Power BI service to Teams - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Get data from Excel workbook files - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
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Hi  @BruceLei ,

According to the official restrictions, Power BI Service to load Excel workbooks does not need to go through Power BI Desktop, but you need to format the data as a table first.

vyangliumsft_0-1669789268395.png

On the Home tab, in the Styles group, select Format as Table.

vyangliumsft_1-1669789268397.png

Refer to:

Tutorial: From Excel workbook to the Power BI service to Teams - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Get data from Excel workbook files - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

 

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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