Image: Vadim/Adobe Stock For the Microsoft Power BI report designer, importing Microsoft Excel data is a common task. Once in Power BI, you analyze and report on that data. Occasionally, you might ...

Power BI, Microsoft’s business analytics service, has over 250,000 customers. It follows that Microsoft would start there to help businesses access their data in Excel.

Opening data from Excel file Power BI establishes a connection with the file containing the sample data. The “Power BI Sample Petroleum Co Data” file contains 10,188 sample data rows. Click the box to ...