Excel: Creating a Basic Dashboard
1h 7mIntermediate2022-02-08
Authors

Curt Frye
President of Technology and Society, Incorporated
Course details
In this course, instructor Curt Frye shows you how to summarize spreadsheet data effectively to support decision-making throughout your organization. Curt explains how to set up a supporting workbook, including how to manage and filter data, streamline charts for dashboards, and create sparklines. He also goes over the process of creating a dashboard worksheet. Curt covers creating and managing cell links, using PivotTable data in a formula, extending your dashboard with hidden rows, and more.
Skills covered
SpreadsheetsMicrosoft ExcelData AnalysisData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyBusiness Software and ToolsMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Improve decision-making by creating dashboards
- 02 - What you should know
1. Setting Up the Supporting Workbook
- 03 - Manage data using Excel tables
- 04 - Manage PivotTables and PivotCharts
- 05 - Summarize Excel table and PivotTable data
- 06 - Filter Excel table and PivotTable data
- 07 - Define conditional formats
- 08 - Define an icon set conditional format
- 09 - Streamline charts for dashboards
- 10 - Create sparklines
2. Creating a Dashboard Worksheet
- 11 - Create and manage cell links
- 12 - Link cell contents to a shape
- 13 - Use PivotTable data in a formula
- 14 - Extend your dashboard using hidden rows
- 15 - Hide gridlines and set zoom levels
Conclusion
- 16 - Next steps
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