Quick summary
This tutorial shows how to record data in Power BI by importing an Excel file into Power BI Desktop and loading it into your data model. Once imported, your Excel data is ready to use for building reports and visualizations.
Steps
- Open Power BI Desktop and click Blank report to start a new project.
- Select Import data from Excel as your data source.
- Navigate to your .xlsx file, select it, and click Open to access the data.
- Power BI displays all available tables and sheets — check the boxes next to the ones you want to include in your report.
- Click Load to bring your selected data into Power BI.
- Your Excel data is now recorded in your Power BI model and ready for creating visualizations.
