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Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel

You're reading from   Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel Harness the new features and formulae in M365 Excel to create dynamic, automated dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237299
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1 – Dashboards and Reports in Modern Excel FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Dashboards, Reports, and M365 Excel 3. Chapter 2: Common Dashboards in Lsarge Companies 4. Part 2 – Keeping Your Eyes on Automation
5. Chapter 3: The Importance of Connecting Directly to the Primary Data Sources 6. Chapter 4: Power Query: the Ultimate Data Transformation Tool 7. Chapter 5: PivotTable and Power Pivot 8. Chapter 6: Must-Know Legacy Excel Functions 9. Chapter 7: Dynamic Array Functions and Lambda Functions 10. Part 3 – Getting the Visualization Right
11. Chapter 8: Getting Comfortable with the 19 Excel Charts 12. Chapter 9: Non-Chart Visuals 13. Chapter 10: Setting Up the Dashboard's Data Model 14. Chapter 11: Perfecting the Dashboard 15. Chapter 12: Best Practices for Real-World Dashboard Building 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building the HR manpower dashboard

We will pick up from where we left off in the previous chapter when we built the data model, like the one in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.1 – An overview of the HR dashboard data model

Figure 11.1 – An overview of the HR dashboard data model

We are going to build an HR manpower dashboard that will look like the one in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.2 – An overview of a snapshot of the dashboard to be built

Figure 11.2 – An overview of a snapshot of the dashboard to be built

To build this dashboard, we will use the following components in Excel:

  • A PivotTable to generate the interactive tables
  • A PivotChart to create two column charts in the dashboard
  • Insert a picture to add the company logo
  • Shapes and icons to create single-value cards at the top of the dashboard

By the time we have finished building the dashboard, you will get to experience the power that having a proper data model puts in your hands, building beautiful interactive dashboards without using complex...

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