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 ...

Whenever I manage large databases and projects in Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet software can sometimes feel intimidating. It often results in an inefficient and frustrating experience. Then, I ...

Excel is more than just a tool for organizing data and performing calculations. With the right techniques, you can transform your spreadsheets into interactive dashboards that engage users and provide ...

What if creating an interactive Excel dashboard didn’t take hours of manual effort or advanced technical skills? Imagine transforming raw data into a polished, dynamic visualization in mere ...

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, ...

In this month’s installment of my Excel dashboard series, I’m going to show you a trick that will give you the ability to control an entire dashboard with one menu — in this example, a radio button ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excel spreadsheets are a daunting affair for many. And indeed, when you are confronting dozens of rows and columns comprising hundreds if not thousands of cells filled with all sorts of data, it's ...