Guides

Six short answers to the questions people ask before they upload a file and after they download one.

• Excel to Power BI: a report from your workbook in minutes

  Upload an Excel workbook and get an editable Power BI project: pages, DAX measures and filters, planned from your columns. Open it in Power BI Desktop.

• CSV to Power BI: from an export to an editable report

  Turn a CSV export into a Power BI project with measures, filters and pages. Upload the file, download the .pbip, open it in Power BI Desktop.

• Power BI report generator from a spreadsheet

  A Power BI report generator that plans pages and DAX measures from your spreadsheet and returns an editable .pbip. Free plan, one report a month.

• Automate Power BI reports from Excel exports

  Stop rebuilding the same Power BI report from each Excel export. Upload the new file, get a fresh .pbip with planned pages and checked measures.

• How to open a .pbip file and save it as .pbix

  A .pbip file is a Power BI Desktop project. Extract the .zip to a short folder, open the .pbip, press Refresh, then use File > Save As to get a .pbix file.

• Power BI report without Copilot or Fabric capacity

  Copilot in Power BI needs a paid F2 or P1 capacity or larger, not just a Pro licence. Four other ways to get a report from Excel, with trade-offs.