The power of dashboard reporting with Excel

(Charley Kyd) Microsoft Office Excel is one of the best applications on the market for dashboard reporting, a technique that many Excel users may not be familiar with or know how to implement. Essentially, a dashboard report is a way to visually present critical data in summary form so that you can make quick and effective decisions, in much the same way that a car dashboard works. I've included some Excel dashboard samples at the end of this article. Not only do these samples illustrate the power Excel offers to create good-looking dashboards, these samples also show different types of dashboard reports.