Hey everyone here’s a quick but awesome tip for you that will make your life (or your IT dept’s life easier) when it comes to keeping Power BI Desktop updated so you always have the latest version.Microsoft rolls out updates to Power BI Desktop almost every month, and most…
This post is about the basics/essentials of formatting a Bar Chart in Power BI. When I say formatting BASICS, I mean what you should do EVERY time you build a bar chart to make it as easy for your users to understand. For this post we’re going to start with…
In this post we’ll be going over the basics of the Power BI Filter Pane, including the many many ways we can use it to filter our visuals differently. We’ll be using a simple pre-built report to learn about the basics of the Filter Pane. You can download a copy…
Learn the basics of making a Bar Chart with this post. We won’t get into too much detail about the many things we can do with bar charts, but those will be their own tutorials. Video: Written Instructions: We’re going to start off with a report that already has Excel…
We’ll be learning the basics of connecting to an Excel file in this tutorial. We’ll have other posts about connecting to other types of data sources. We’ll be connecting a super simple Excel spreadsheet in this post. If you’ve like to try it out with the same file, you…
This post is a very high level look at the Power BI interface. What different ribbons do, what panes there are, what views there are.This post was made with the November 2023 version of Power BI desktop. While Microsoft updates Power BI Desktop every month, the changes to the User…
Welcome to How To Use Power BI! This post is a guide to the site, to let you know where to start if you’re brand new, or where to find the information you are looking for. About How To Use Power BI Check out the About page if you…
This site is all about learning how to use Power BI. It doesn’t matter if you’re totally new to Power BI, or have already used it and want to up your skills. How To Use Power BI is for you. Power BI has the potential to increase your data reporting…
