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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

Connecting to over 100 different data sources

Power Query has connectors for over 100 different data sources. This means you can connect directly to most data sources without the need to first export the data and re-import the static export into Excel. This direct, live connection to data sources is one of the major advantages of using Power Query for report building.

However, there’s a catch with the current connector setups – their availability can be limited by the host application. This means some connectors are available for Power Query in Power BI and not available for Power Query in Excel. You can access the list of Power Query connectors on the Microsoft official page for Power Query, https://powerquery.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/, and via this GitHub page: https://github.com/olafusimichael/B18312.

If there’s a data source you want to directly connect to and it’s in the preceding list but not available for Power Query in Excel, there’...

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