Now your Excel workbook is ready to be linked to Power BI. If you do not prepare your workbook in this way Power BI will just ignore it, so this process can’t be avoided. The Power BI how-to series ...

Importing from an Excel file saved to OneDrive is one of the easiest choices, so I saved my Excel file, PBIImportFromExcel_SourceFile.xlsx, to OneDrive. The data is in a Table named TableSales.

Data from the Excel file appears. The data needs to be cleaned and formatted before loading into Power BI. Click on the Transform Data button, as indicated by the bottom red arrow in the “Transaction ...