The Tricks to Writing a Conditional Formatting Rule Formula
When you build your Excel Dashboard, you will frequently want to use Conditional Formatting to create color callouts and other table based dashboard components. ...
How-to Fake an Excel Chart Data Table
Fake an Excel Chart Data Table
Yesterday, I showed you how you can use the Horizontal Axis option of “Multi-level Category Labels” to create a...
How-to Make Dynamic Excel Dashboard Charts Using Tables
For almost every Excel Dashboard you will want to make a Chart template Dynamic. Meaning that as you add new data, the chart updates...
How-to Make a Dynamic Excel Pie Chart with 4 steps in less than 4...
This is an awesome guest post from our great friend Pete. He came up with this awesome technique to make a dynamic pie chart...
Think Like a Database Designer Before Creating an Excel Dashboard Chart
Recently, a fan asked for some help. However, when I got their file, I saw that they needed some help with basic concepts, so...
Friday Challenge – Showing More Categories in an Excel Chart
Can you help Kevin with his problem?
Kevin saw this article:
How-to Add a Line to an Excel Chart Data Table and Not to the Excel...
Copy Paste vs Fill Handle Copy with Tables References in an Excel formula
In this recent post:
Friday Challenge Answers – Cumulative Events Over Time
I created a formula that referenced a table. As I created my video I...
How-to Add a Shape to a PowerPoint Table and Make it Move and Size...
As a project manager or business analyst, we are often called upon to create dashboard type views in status reports for Executives.
Typically, company executives...
Friday Challenge – Analyzing Attendance Records with Six Sigma Charts
The following is a guest post from Pete on his answer to the most recent Friday Challenge.
Pete applied his knowledge of Six Sigma to...
How-to Insert Slicers into an Excel Pivot Table
In my last post, Think-like-a-database-designer-before-creating-an-excel-dashboard-chart
we described the best way to configure your data to easily create your next dashboard.
In this post, we explore the...






