Power BI documentation

Power BI amplifies your insights and the value of your data. With Power BI documentation, you get expert information and answers to address your needs, no matter how you use Power BI.

Get Started

Download Power BI Desktop for free

Tutorial

Get started creating in the Power BI service

Tutorial

Embed a Power BI report in an application

Concept

Export Power BI embedded analytics reports API

Concept

Protect sensitive data with data loss prevention policies

Learn

Get your data on the go with Power BI mobile apps

How-To Guide

Create sparklines in a table or matrix

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Study Power BI start to finish on Microsoft Learn

Power BI: Get started

• What is Power BI?
• Get started with Power BI Desktop
• Get started creating in the Power BI service
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Power BI for business users

• Am I a Power BI business user?
• Get around in the Power BI service
• What is a dashboard?
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Enterprise

• What is Power BI Premium Gen2?
• Security
• Data protection
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Administer Power BI

• What is Power BI administration?
• Admin portal settings
• Use the same account for Power BI and Azure
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Develop in Power BI

• What is Power BI embedded analytics?
• Power BI Embedded Generation 2
• Develop your own Power BI visual
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Connect to data

• Connect to data
• On-premises data gateways
• Discover data on the datasets hub
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Transform and shape data

• Query Editor overview
• Common query tasks
• Shape and combine data
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Model data

• Add a custom column
• Create calculated columns
• Create and manage relationships
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Create reports and dashboards

• Design reports for accessibility
• Create a paginated report based on a shared dataset
• Customize buttons in reports
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Collaborate and share

• Share dashboards and reports
• Create the new workspaces
• Add the Power BI app to Microsoft Teams
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Integrate across products

• Azure and Power BI
• Analyze in Excel
• Export and email with Power Automate
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Power BI Premium Gen2

• What is Power BI Premium Gen2?
• Understanding Power BI Premium Gen2
• Use the Gen2 metrics app
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Power BI in the mobile apps

• What are the mobile apps?
• Explore dashboards and reports
• Get data on the go with the mobile apps
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Best practices guidance

• Guidance overview
• Star schemas
• Reduce data model size
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Learning catalog

• Business decision makers
• Get started with DAX
• Solution architects
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Troubleshooting

• Known issues for Power BI features
• Service interruption notifications
• Power BI Pro and Power BI Premium support options
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