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Power BI as a Data Source for Microsoft Word

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Miguel Oliveira on 06 Jan 2020 21:22:26

Power BI is a great tool for Data visualization but not the best for List/Print Reporting.

Paginated Reports are good but are not suited for End Users.

In order to have an easy way to allow End users to create List/Print Reports on their own I believe Microsoft Word is a great tool for the purpose.

The solution would be the following:
- Use the XML Mapping functionality in Microsoft Word in order to connect to a Power BI Data Source.
- Use the smart tags in order to allow the user to select the data data it wants.


Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central uses this functionality and it works well enough.
I share an example of the functionality in action :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtTrnDwRvnQ

It seems it would be a good solution for End user List/Print Reporting.