Almost an year ago, we had a memorable dashboard contest on Sales Dashboards. We got 32 beautiful, outstanding, well crafted entries and it was a lot of fun learning new tricks & meeting new members of our community. I am planning to have one more dashboard contest and I need your help.
I need you to suggest a topic for the contest (optional: and give some sample data)
Just drop a comment with your suggestions (and point to source data if any). We will have a dashboard contest on one of those topics.
Few Excel Links to keep you busy:
It has been a while since I shared some Excel related links with you. In this post, I am going to share 5 articles that have taught me an important excel trick or data analysis nugget. Go ahead and enjoy these links.
Beginners Guide to Web Analytics (and why you should read it)
Avinash has one of the best blogs on Web Analytics. But I read his blog for another reason too – to understand how to analyze data. In this post, Avinash shares 10 excellent ways in which you can analyze data and understand the patterns. Very insightful stuff.
Start your next dashboard with a sentence
Jorge at Excel Charts recommends writing a simple sentence to describe dashboards. This will help you in constructing better dashboards. Very good advice for dashboard makers.
I have wasted countless hours as a kid playing Tetris. I think when I see a falling brick, I feel the compulsion to arrange it into a cavity. So naturally I am impressed with this Excel Tetris game made by George. Go check it out.
Embed Wordle word clouds in to Excel
Robert at Clearly and Simply shows us how to embed wordle word clouds in to Excel. Very good demonstration of a powerful technique.
Fill a combo box with unique values – Excel Record-set Tricks
Mike shows us how to use record-set feature in Excel to show unique values in combo boxes. Useful technique for those of you building models, complex dashboards using Excel.
Your can also browse more Excel Links here.
Share an Excel Link with us: If you want to share a link with our community, just drop a comment or send me an email at chandoo.d @ gmail.com. I will be glad to share it with all the readers.
Have a good week ahead.
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!