Excel Dashboards and Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Learn to:

• Analyze data and report it in a way that makes sense
• Slice and dice data from different perspectives
• Create eye-catching and understandable reports, visualizations, and dashboards
• Automate redundant reporting

Take Excel to the next level with this guide to advanced dashboards and reporting

This reference is your ticket to advanced analysis with Excel! Find out how to use this powerful tool for business intelligence and explore the details of data trending and relationships, creating data visualizations, and more. Part tech manual and part analytics guidebook, this resource will help you create high-impact reports and dashboards today!

• Make the move to dashboards — create effective dashboards, make great reports, and build super models
• Build the basics — dive into PivotTables, Excel charts, conditional formatting, and dynamic labeling
• Get advanced — dig into the powerful components of Excel, including those that show trending, display performance, group data, and more
• Share your work — use external data for dashboards and reports and share your work with the world
• Go further — take things up a notch with more extensive chart design principles and safeguards to follow before distributing dashboards
• Advanced reporting — make interactive interfaces and use macros to super-charge your reporting

Open the book and find:

• Tips to analyze large amounts of data
• Information on reporting data in meaningful ways
• Ways to break data down into various views
• Tricks to create great visualizations
• Methods to make impressive dashboards
• Technical and analytical concepts made easy
• Tips on creating PivotTables, representing trends, and more