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Month: August 2026

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Introducing Excel Semantic Table Add-in

In my last post, I ranted about Excel connected tables backed by Power BI semantic models. For years, I’ve heard from clients that all they wanted was to dump query results into regular Excel tables so they could use standard formulas. Connected tables achieved this using DAX instead of MDX for faster queries—except clients still wanted those tables to be interactive, just like PivotTables. On…

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Five Ways to Get Data from Fabric Semantic Models in Excel

Ask a business user where they want to work with the data, and Excel would probably top the list. Regardless of how hard we try to lure users away from it, Excel remains the endpoint of self-service BI for many organizations. I have clients who have built custom apps or purchased Excel add-ins simply to get data into Excel—or manipulate it once it gets there.…

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