Do you use (or make) Excel Dashboards? Tell us about yourself to win a free training kit
(You can win my latest Excel Dashboard Training kit free, read this post to find out how.)
Over at Jorge’s ExcelCharts blog, he started a very good discussion on Excel Dashboards: Who needs them anyway?.
Jorge has very good experience designing, working on and teaching about dashboards. So he uses all that skill to gaze in to a crystal ball, to understand who needs excel dashboards and why. In this post, I build on his argument and ask you the big question – “If you make or use Excel Dashboards, who are you?”
6 Christmas Cards in Excel – Download and Spread Joy
Few days back, I have asked you to make a Christmas card in Excel (or any of your favorite festival’s card).
We got 6 entries for this contest. All the entries showed a lot of creativity to come up with beautiful cards using Excel. See the entries, download the excel files & find out who the winner is. Read the rest of this post.
Excel Links – Next Dashboard Contest Edition
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.
Read the rest of this post to get some useful Excel related links.
Mutant Cell Modeling Problem [Homework]
Today’s homework is inspired from an email I got from Simran, I have a mathematical problem, I do not know if it can be solved using excel. So, the question is what is the probability of selecting a mutant cell if the percentage of mutant in the whole population is 0.01 and each cell is […]
Make Dynamic Dashboards using Pivot Tables & Slicers [Video & Download]
Do you know that Excel 2010 makes creation of dynamic dashboards very simple?
Yes, that is right. Using slicers feature, you can create dynamic excel dashboards from your data in very little time. Today we are going to learn a technique that will help you create a dashboard like below.
Read rest of this post to find out how to construct a dynamic dashboard in Excel & download the example workbook.
Merge Cells without Losing Data [Quick Tip]
Many of us face this problem. We have some data in a few cells. Either for alignment or structure, we would like to merge the cell contents in to one big cell. But Excel wont help as it cannot merge values from all cells.
Make a Christmas Card, and you can Win a $50 Gift Card
Christmas is my favorite festival. It has certain magical feel to it. This year, it is going to be even more special, because we have 2 more hilarious, lovely people to share our joy with, not to mention over 16,000 of you to celebrate it with.
So naturally, I was excited when Fred suggested that we have a contest on this in our forums. So here we go.