Explanation

An Excel Dashboard is a visual report that presents important business information in a single, easy-to-understand view.

A dashboard can contain:

  • KPI Cards
  • Charts
  • PivotCharts
  • Slicers
  • Interactive Filters
  • Tables
  • Conditional Formatting
  • Dynamic Titles

Example

A Sales Dashboard may display:

Total Sales | Total Orders | Total Quantity | Average Sales

along with sales charts and filters.

Key Principle

A good dashboard should answer important questions quickly without requiring the user to examine the raw dataset.

Practice

Open a sales dataset and identify five KPIs that management would want to see.

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