Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 420 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook (February 29, 2024)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1803237295
• ISBN-13: 978-1803237299

eBook Description:

Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel: Harness the new features and formulae in M365 Excel to create dynamic, automated dashboards. Unleash the full potential of Microsoft Excel’s latest version and elevate your data-driven prowess with this comprehensive resource.

M365 Excel is a modern Excel version that is constantly updated with features that make creating and automating analyses, reports, and dashboards very easy compared with older Excel versions. This book will help you leverage its full capabilities, beginning with a quick overview of what dashboards are and how they are different from other types of reports. Then, you’ll familiarize yourself with the different standard dashboards currently available and what they are meant to accomplish for organizations. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the use of new powerful tools such as Power Query and dynamic array formulae in the automation of analysis, gaining insights into the right approach to take in building effective dashboards. You’ll equip yourself with not only all the essential formulae, charts, and non-chart visuals but also learn how to set up your dashboard perfectly. Along the way, you’ll build a couple of awesome dashboards from scratch to utilize your newfound knowledge.

• Understand the importance of dashboards in today’s business analytics environment
• Delve into the various essential formulae in Excel
• Utilize Power Query to shape and transform data to extract insights easily
• Explore the power of the new dynamic array functions in M365
• Employ PivotTable and Power Pivot to automate your dashboards
• Master the setup and optimization of your dashboard canvas
• Discover best practices for visualization, charts, and effective dashboard creation
• Consolidate your knowledge through a hands-on concluding project

By the end of this Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel book, you will be able to carry out an impressive and robust level of analysis on business data that may come from multiple sources or files, using better processes, formulae, and best practices in M365 to create insightful dashboards faster.