Rick W / Tuesday, February 10, 2026 / Categories: Business Intelligence Deprecation of old Excel and CSV import experience in Power BI Service Excel and CSV files remain a valid data source for Power BI semantic models and reports. You can use them to create reports in the Power BI service from the Create page or in Power BI Desktop. This blog post is for users who created reports using the old experience to import an Excel or … Previous Article Three Reasons Your BI Tool Struggles with EPM Reporting (And What Works Better) Print 5 Tags: Power BIModeModeldataBI