Let me show you how to enter data in Power BI Desktop with an example. In real time, you may face a situation like manually entering table data or copying data from text file to your Power Bi working environment. In these situations, you can use the Power BI data entry option.
How to enter data in Power BI
To enter new data in Power BI Desktop, click Introduce data option under the Home tongue.
<>Clicking Introduce data The option opens a new window called Create table. Here, you can create new columns and add new rows.
Clicking in the Column1 area allows you to add a new name. Let me change the header of Column 1 as the Name. Then click * to add a new column.
You can now see the New column in Power BI.
For demo purposes let me add some rows
Use the text box next to the name: archived to rename the table. As you can see in the screenshot below, we rename the table as Example 1.
Then click the Upload button to upload this table to the Power Bi desktop. You can also click the Edit button to edit these fields.
Please wait until the upload is complete.
Now you can see the new table
Enter data from the Excel file into Power BI Desktop
In this example, we explain the steps to paste the data from the Excel file into Power BI Desktop. First, let me open the Create table window by clicking on the Introduce data button
Let me copy the data present in the excel file
Y péguelo en la ventana Crear tabla (Control + C y Control + V). Recuerde, Power BI detecta automáticamente los headers de columna.
Let me rename the table as ExcelEmployee and click the Load button
Now you can see the table
Enter data from SQL table to Power BI Desktop
First, let me copy the data present in the SQL table
and paste it in the table creation window
Rename the table as per your requirements and hit the Load button
Now you can see the table
Enter data from the text file into Power BI Desktop
Primero, déjame abrir el archivo de texto. Como puede ver, el archivo no está formateado correctamente. Déjame copiar el contents de este archivo de texto.
Next, we paste it into the table creation window. You can see in the screenshot below, all the information stored in one column.
We can edit them by pressing the Edit button, but we will write a separate article to explain those techniques. So for now, we rename the table and load it to the desktop.
