Not everything belongs in a dashboard. Cost rates, procurement status, and site-verified quantities usually start life in a spreadsheet, and pretending otherwise just means they get typed twice.
An add-in, not a template
Excel works differently from the Power BI templates in this gallery. There is no .xltx to download — Frame connects to Excel through an add-in that reads your model data live.
Export
Pull model properties into a worksheet, define new ones, and build pivot tables against them the way you would with any other dataset.
Filters, both directions
Apply a filter in Excel and the model viewer follows. Filter in the viewer and the spreadsheet follows. The selection is the same selection, so a conversation about a subset of elements does not require re-deriving it in each tool.
Colours from conditional formatting
Excel’s conditional formatting drives colour-coding in the model. Colour by cost band, by procurement status, or by any column you have added yourself, using rules you write in Excel rather than in a separate configuration screen.
Back into Power BI
Columns you add in Excel come back into the Power BI reports alongside the model-derived fields. Your rates and statuses sit next to the quantities they apply to, in the same tables.