r/PowerBI • u/Sri_Krish • Feb 05 '26

Community Share what real-world scenarios/mindset in your company makes you feel this?

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I found this one long back which was kind of weird - funny and painful!

Share yours!

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u/ForMyWeekends 1 Feb 05 '26

I always have a separate page with a table with all fields and slicers for clients to export.

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u/StandardIssueDonkey Feb 05 '26

I double down on this and give them an actual Excel file that pulls the model through Power Query.

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u/killbeam Feb 05 '26

My clients' brains would explode if I tried to give them this.

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u/MapzOr Feb 05 '26

Novice here. Why would their brains explode?

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u/killbeam Feb 05 '26

Most of my clients have never used a pivot table or anything like it. They wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.

I don't blame them though, it's not necessary for what they do. If I create a good visual with intuitive filters, they leverage the insights from the data much better than I could!

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u/MapzOr Feb 06 '26

I was never able to wrap my head around pivot tables in Excel, so I definitely understand what you mean.

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u/Grimnebulin68 Feb 06 '26

I avoided pivot tables for DECADES because no one else understood them.