The first step in creating an effective Excel dashboard is to analyze your data. Excel’s built-in “Analyze Data” tool, located on the Home tab, is a great starting point. This feature helps you ...

Have you ever stared at a spreadsheet packed with endless rows of numbers, wondering how to make sense of it all? You’re not alone. In a world where data drives decisions, the ability to transform raw ...

I’m starting a series on dashboards because I think creating sexy dashboards is a critical skill every marketer needs to know. It’s going to be a long series — but by the time we’re finished, you’ll ...

Q. I have a large Excel workbook with many worksheets, and I’d like to summarize the key elements of this workbook into a single dashboard-type report. What’s the best way to do this? A. There are ...

When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data. Sometimes a chart’s underlying data doesn’t fit in the chart window. When ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 provided many new features over its predecessors and, to make it more useful in the workplace, it also offered additional tools for collaboration and data sharing. One of these ...

Excel's Linked Picture tool lets you take a snapshot of some data and paste it as an image—handy if you're compiling a dashboard of the key metrics from across your workbook. Unlike normal images, ...