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Power BI for Excel Users - Work Smarter, Grow Faster (Udemy.com)

Learn Power BI using your Excel knowledge. Fast, in-depth, practical, useful. No tips & tricks. Pure Empowerment.

Created by: Dr. Nitin Paranjape

Last updated February 2026

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What you will learn

  • Understand what is good and bad data. Good data allows you to analyze it without wasting time in clean-up.
  • Identify incoming data as good or bad and clean it up very fast. (unimaginably fast)
  • Understand how to detect inefficiency while working and how to find the most efficient approach.
  • Combine transnational data with master data without using VLOOKUP
  • Import millions of rows of data and analyze it quickly
  • Learn which type of visualization to use depending upon business reuqirements
  • Create interactive and easy to understand dashboards using Power BI tools
  • Use Power BI capabilities to find out interesting but usually unseen insights about data using "Quick Insights"
  • Share the dashboards and reports with others in a secure manner

How it compares

Against the other 68 rated Udemy courses in Power BI on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 19% of them
  • Reviews10,055#13 of 69 by number of reviews
  • Length3.9 hoursshorter than 82% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2026more recently than 51% of them

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Course Description

Objectives

  1. Help you learn Power BI faster using the Excel knowledge you already have

  2. Understand how to gather and clean data

  3. Make you self-sufficient in applying this knowledge to your work

  4. How to use Power BI and Excel to your advantage

Preparation

If you use Excel, you are good to go.

No special preparation is required.

Just dive into the course and start learning.

No Power BI license required.

Use Power BI Desktop - which is completely free.

No knowledge of any programming language or database is necessary.

Who should take this course

Anyone who is using Excel will benefit from this course.

If you want to learn Power BI directly, that is also fine. Because the concepts are common.

Even if you are an expert, you will find new concepts and ideas which will amplify your impact

This course will enhance your Excel skills as well because Power Query and Data Model are also available in Excel

Difficulty Level

200

Topics covered:
The entire Power BI life-cycle is covered.

  1. Power BI - the concepts

  2. Importing data from various sources

  3. Cleaning up data for Analysis in Power BI

  4. Consolidating data across sheets and files

  5. Creating a cohesive database (data model)

  6. Creating visuals and interactive reports

  7. Natural language Question and Answer

  8. Introduction to DAX functions

  9. Power BI within Excel

  10. How to learn and next steps

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Instructor Details

Dr. Nitin Paranjape

Globally recognized expert on Microsoft Office 365 and Copilot platform.

Microsoft MVP since 21 years. 1000+ blog articles and 900+ videos.

Coached 400,000+ professionals in 4100+ organizations across 18 countries.

He coaches Microsoft employees on using their own products more effectively.

Microsoft regularly engages with him to conduct sessions for their key customers globally. His sessions are most sought after for CXOs, and business leaders. He also conducts large format sessions for entire organizations (all hands).

He is not a just a content creator - he is a thought leader, and lifelong learner.

His sessions are often referred to as a "Magic Show" or "Eye Opener".

His approach is simple and practical. No jargon. No complexity. He does not just impart knowledge. He empowers you to learn on your own and apply it to your context.

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Reviews

4.4

10,055 ratings on Udemy

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By James Powell on 5/16/2025

I took this course after being told to learn "Poer BI." So, my tasker didn't even get it right to begin with. I liked the continual tie back to what I already knew from having worked with Excel. That being said, I did learn a few new tricks in Excel along the way of learning the capabilities of Power BI. As a practical manner, when I'm teaching I try to emphasize to the new folks ... learn and remember WHAT CAN BE DONE more so than the exact process of the HOW TO DO what can be done. Process can (and often does) change. Rarely does a capability just go away. It is usually still there ... just get at it from another way. This course emphasized more than one way to do things, and this course pre-emptively answered some of my questions about moving back and forth ... into and out of Power BI to other MS Office platforms. It may have been my screen ... but there were times when I couldn't really tell what the good Doctor was doing based on the visuals and had to rewind to listen harder to what he was saying and then go exploring in external resources (Power BI desktop, Books, or the web) to ferret out what he was trying to communicate. Overall, well done for an entry level introduction of the world of the possible.

By Jan Nevidal on 1/24/2023

Really nice and clear introduction to Power BI without going into too many details. Have a good understanding now about the overall creation process and what to concentrate on next. Thanks for that!

By Darshan Khatri on 5/14/2022

This course provides a good overview of Power BI . Topics such as get data, preparation of data, Creating relationships in data model and Reports creation are explained very well. But few things related to power BI services which are shown in course are very obsolete now, Its been updated to great extent .

By Nithin Raj on 4/25/2022

Good introduction. Dax was a little confusing, but i guess that is expected given that i am a novice. Would have been better if the last couple of modules on data refresh/dataset connectivity between excel and power bi through one drive would have been more comprehensive and had coverage like SharePoint as base etc. However this is still a good starting point considering the time spent

By Peer Dreyfuss on 8/17/2021

Great Overview to the capabilities of Power BI and its integration with EXcel. REALLY needs an update incorporating key changes that have been made in Excel and to the total change to the Power BI menu/layout structure. Need to include some of the resources for Section 9

By Anonymized User on 1/10/2021

I think I needed a more basic level of the course to be able to understand more quickly everything else. Perhaps a quick overview of functions and buttons will we useful for those who need it and those who do not need it can skip it. Or maybe a test so we know what level we are in and start from there

By Sittisak Nuchanram on 7/16/2018

Powerful to deep analysis the social data Analytics good start for new learner to catch up about Power BI introduction until building Visualize dashboard, also good to know new calculation functions DAX in Power BI. Well need to continue learning about Power BI Premium functionality towards. Finally, i'd like to thank you Dr. Nitin Paranjape for the course instructor .

By Jacob John on 10/10/2017

Very well constructed course. Dr. Paranjape's knowledge on PowerBI from its very beginning stages of development surely brings out the core principles of the product. I am hoping he will continue to update this course with the latest features of PowerBI. Also a higher level course to for advanced learners would be very helpful. Thank You!

By siew ogle on 7/24/2017

Great videos for a beginner or as a refresher. Very informative, easy to understand step-by-step lectures that help you do better in creating data. Will certainly recommend this course to others.

By Pradip on 1/22/2017

Thank you sir. I went through your message earlier, while reviewing again i missed replacing the message. Whenever I watch your course this rating always pops up. hence, you must have received my message twice. One last thing, i would like to know, Do you have any course on advance dax functions? Thanks a ton.

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