

In many cases this is enough to get started with your first Excel PivotTable. All these methods end up with the same result: one or more tables in the Data Model. Besides Power Query there are several other ways to add data to the Data Model, you can use Excel’s get external data features or even directly import in Power Pivot. To load the data into the Excel Data Model you have three different methods, to load any table from Power Query into the Data Model you can select “Load to Data Model” and this will bring the data into the model. It allows you to create analytics and visualizations using multiple tables without writing a single VLOOKUP, load data that has more than 1.000.000 rows and add advanced business logic to your solution with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) formulas. Loading data into the Excel Data Model allows you to use data in a way previously impossible in Excel. In order for us to do this we need to load the data into the Excel Data Model. In this blog post we will take that data and prepare it for analyzing and visualizing in Excel.


In our previous blog posts we explored how to bring data into Excel through Power Query ( Part I and Part II). Welcome back to our Getting Started with Excel and Power BI Series.
