Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies (eBook)

Michael Alexander (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 4. Auflage
384 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-84441-9 (ISBN)

Infos

It's time for some truly "Excel-lent" spreadsheet reporting


Beneath the seemingly endless rows and columns of cells, the latest version of Microsoft Excel boasts an astonishing variety of features and capabilities. But how do you go about tapping into some of that power without spending all of your days becoming a spreadsheet guru?


It's easy. You grab a copy of the newest edition of Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies and get ready to blow the pants off your next presentation audience!


With this book, you'll learn how to transform those rows and columns of data into dynamic reports, dashboards, and visualizations. You'll draw powerful new insights from your company's numbers to share with your colleagues - and seem like the smartest person in the room while you're doing it.


Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies offers:


* Complete coverage of the latest version of Microsoft Excel provided in the Microsoft 365 subscription

* Strategies to automate your reporting so you don't have to manually crunch the numbers every week, month, quarter, or year

* Ways to get new perspectives on old data, visualizing it so you can find solutions no one else has seen before




If you're ready to make your company's numbers and spreadsheets dance, it's time to get the book that'll have them moving to your tune in no time. Get Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies today.

Autor

Michael Alexander is a senior consultant at Slalom Consulting with more than 15 years' experience in data management and reporting. He is the author of more than a dozen books on business analysis using Microsoft Excel, and has been named Microsoft Excel MVP for his contributions to the Excel community.

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Excel Dashboards and Reports 7

Chapter 1: Getting in the Dashboard State of Mind 9

Chapter 2: Building a Super Model 23

Chapter 3: The Pivotal Pivot Table 65

Chapter 4: Using External Data for Your Dashboards and Reports. 101

Part 2: Building Basic Dashboard Components 119

Chapter 5: Dressing Up Your Data Tables 121

Chapter 6: Sparking Inspiration with Sparklines 139

Chapter 7: Formatting Your Way to Visualizations 153

Part 3: Adding Charts to Your Dashboards 185

Chapter 8: Charts That Show Trending 187

Chapter 9: Grouping and Bucketing Data 211

Chapter 10: Displaying Performance against a Target 231

Part 4: Advanced Reporting Techniques 247

Chapter 11: Giving Users an Interactive Interface 249

Chapter 12: Adding Interactivity with Pivot Slicers 283

Chapter 13: Sharing Your Workbook with the Outside World 303

Part 5: The Part of Tens 323

Chapter 14: Ten Chart Design Principles 325

Chapter 15: Ten Questions to Ask Before Distributing Your Dashboard 339

Index 345

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• Schlagworte: Computer-Ratgeber • End-User Computing • Excel • Microsoft Excel
• ISBN-10: 1-119-84441-X / 111984441X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-84441-9 / 9781119844419