Build stable, high-performance dashboards using REPT formulas and UNICHAR symbols instead of conditional formatting.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...

Microsoft Excel is an extremely capable tool for organizing and analyzing data, but in its raw form this data can be hard to ...

The first step in creating an effective Excel dashboard is to analyze your data. Excel’s built-in “Analyze Data” tool, located on the Home tab, is a great starting point. This feature helps you ...

If you want to create a dashboard in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you. A dashboard is a type of graphical representation that depicts the key performance indicators for a particular topic or ...

Excel used to be the poor schmuck’s database, with spreadsheets that just sort of sat there. You could create something more sophisticated with LOOKUP functions, but they were a huge hassle to set up.

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...

As a small business owner, you will often have to work with others on an Excel worksheet. For example, if you have hired a sales or marketing consultant, you can give them an interactive worksheet for ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Microsoft Office Excel helps small-business owners analyze price trends, collect demographic data to improve your marketing efforts and produce customized reports for your bank or investors. The ...