Sales reports and dashboards are very common in any company. There are several ways in which you can visualize sales data to understand the trends and sales performance. So in November, I have asked you to visualize sales data using sample data. The visualization challenge #2, sponsored by Zoho Reports generated a huge buzz around the community and fetched 32 incredible entries. The response was so overwhelming that it took me almost 24 hours to write this post.
Thanks everyone for participating and making this a huge learning experience for everyone. Personally I have learned several useful dashboard and charting tricks. I will be sharing some of these lessons with all of you in the coming weeks.
How read this post?
This post is HUGE, I mean 2600 words huge. So you may want to maximize your browser window and fill up your coffee mug. Each of the 32 entries start with a title including authors name and tools used. Each entry includes a small image of the dashboard along with a link to see bigger version. All dashboards have links to original source files for you to download and play with.
Please note that these files are copyrighted to original authors and you cannot use them for commercial purposes.
I have included 3 comments against each entry based on my understanding of dashboard. Please share your opinions and reviews using the comments section of this post.
Javascript based Sales Dashboard by Ahmad (Option 01)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Aires (Option 02)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Ajay (Option 03)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Alex Kerin (Option 04)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Arti (Option 05)
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Excel Dashboard Training by Chandoo.org
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Cole Burdette (Option 06)
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Excel-Palo based Sales Dashboard by Cuboo (Option 07)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Duezzz (Option 08)
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Jmp based Sales Dashboard by Erin Vang (Option 09)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Esteban (Option 10)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Hernan (Option 11)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Karimmo (Option 12)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Karimmo (Option 13)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Karimmo (Option 14)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Karimmo (Option 15)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Karimmo (Option 16)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Leandro (Option 17)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Lee (Option 18)
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Excelcius based Sales Dashboard by Mahesh (Option 19)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Mahesh (Option 20)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Mahesh (Option 21)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Martin (Option 22)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Matt Cloves (Option 23)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Miguel (Option 24)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Nick (Option 25)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Pawel (Option 26)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Pompadour (Option 27)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Stephane (Option 28)
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Flot-Jquery-Ajax based Sales Dashboard by Steven Ng (Option 29)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Tessaes (Option 30)
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Tableau based Sales Dashboard by Edouard (Option 31)
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Excel based Sales Dashboard by Faseeh (Option 32)
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Thank you everyone
Thanks everyone once again for participating. All these entries are truly world class. Such beautiful display of skill. Thank you so much for teaching me how to make better dashboards.


















































11 Responses to “Fix Incorrect Percentages with this Paste-Special Trick”
I've just taught yesterday to a colleague of mine how to convert amounts in local currency into another by pasting special the ROE.
great thing to know !!!
Chandoo - this is such a great trick and helps save time. If you don't use this shortcut, you have to take can create a formula where =(ref cell /100), copy that all the way down, covert it to a percentage and then copy/paste values to the original column. This does it all much faster. Nice job!
I was just asking peers yesterday if anyone know if an easy way to do this, I've been editing each cell and adding a % manually vs setting the cell to Percentage for months and just finally reached my wits end. What perfect timing! Thanks, great tip!
If it's just appearance you care about, another alternative is to use this custom number format:
0"%"
By adding the percent sign in quotes, it gets treated as text and won't do what you warned about here: "You can not just format the cells to % format either, excel shows 23 as 2300% then."
Dear Jon S. You are the reason I love the internet. 3 year old comments making my life easier.
Thank you.
Here is a quicker protocol.
Enter 10000% into the extra cell, copy this cell, select the range you need to convert to percentages, and use paste special > divide. Since the Paste > All option is selected, it not only divides by 10000% (i.e. 100), it also applies the % format to the cells being pasted on.
@Martin: That is another very good use of Divide / Multiply operations.
@Tony, @Jody: Thank you 🙂
@Jon S: Good one...
@Jon... now why didnt I think of that.. Excellent
Thank You so much. it is really helped me.
Big help...Thanks
Thanks. That really saved me a lot of time!
Is Show Formulas is turned on in the Formula Ribbon, it will stay in decimal form until that is turned off. Drove me batty for an hour until I just figured it out.