Excel Dashboards & Reports for Dummies - 4th Edition by Michael Alexander (Paperback)

About the Book

"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?"--]cFrom publisher's description.

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

In go the data, out come valuable insights

Got data? Excel^(R) Dashboards & Reports For Dummies will help you whip it up into information that people can understand--and it'll look pretty, too. Use your data or someone else's to craft summaries, visualizations, and charts. We'll even show you how to make it interactive, so users can update, dice, and slice the data as needed. If you think it's nice to have a bunch of numbers lying around, wait until you see what you can learn from those numbers with Excel^(R). Dummies will help you take your knowledge beyond the basics.

Inside...

• The lowdown on dashboard design principles
• Advanced reporting techniques you should know
• Tips for incorporating external data into your reporting
• Ways to create interactive reporting with macros and pivot slicers

About the Author

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.