Learn how to use Microsoft's free Excel visualization tool Power BI Desktop to easily create interactive dashboards in Excel spreadsheets ...

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

Excel can now automatically access any data published in Power BI from corporate sources you have access to: Your Power BI tables are available to you through the data types gallery.

Microsoft Power BI uses measures the same way Microsoft Excel uses functions. Learn how to recognize them in use and how to manipulate them when you want something different.

2. Explore ‘What-ifs’ Like Excel, Power BI offers slicers for comparing scenarios. But with Power BI, you can simply drag a slider bar to show the impact of changes.

What Is Excel Power View Add-In? A data visualization tool, Power View creates interactive charts, graphs, maps, and other visuals that visually illustrate your data.

Excel now also allows Power BI developers to bring the custom visuals they created for Power BI to Excel.

The first method, which we call the Excel-based approach, is fairly simple and uses Excel to retrieve data from QuickBooks and load data into Power BI. The second method, which we call the QuickBooks ...