You can convert text in Excel to linked data types. This is referred to as “linked” data types because the data is connected to an online data source.

The gist of it is that linked data types connect users in Excel to other data from Bing, Wolfram, Power BI and other sources, covering currencies, geography, organizations, locations, cities ...

Learn Power BI basics in this beginner tutorial. Master the interface, connect data sources, clean data, and build your first data model.

Try these two ways of analyzing and reporting QuickBooks Online data using Microsoft’s Power BI Desktop Version.

Data comes from all kinds of sources and Microsoft Power Query can you when you need to combine foreign data. It’s a bit easier than trying to do so in Microsoft Excel sometimes.

Use Excel’s “Get Data from Folder” feature to import and combine multiple trial balance files into a single query. Clean and transform data using Power Query to prepare it for analysis.