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Learn to Create Your Own Excel
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Inside The E-Book Kit |
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The kit consists of the 150-page e-book and a package of more than 20 files that the book discusses. Here are the major topics: How to Create Mini-Charts. Excel users often print charts that are about the size of post cards. But business magazines often print charts that are about the size of postage stamps. By using small charts in our Excel reports, we give our audience more insight more quickly than any other method of reporting. Chapter 2 of the e-book explains how to create those professional-quality "mini-charts." And the workbooks that accompany the e-book illustrate each step along the way. Other Useful Techniques for Dashboards. Good dashboards often require additional charting techniques. Chapter 3 explains how to add an additional data series to a chart, how to include multiple chart types, how to overlay two charts to create special effects, how to use auto-shapes in charts, and more. How to Create Figures that Use Both Charts and Worksheets. In dashboards, cell formatting, column widths, row heights, special formulas, and other spreadsheet elements all combine with charts to create the dashboard figures. Chapter 4 explains how to use these important elements in your dashboard reports. Excel's Camera Tool. This long-time Excel feature probably is the most-useful feature that most Excel users have never heard of. It gives you the ability to position live images of tables anywhere in your dashboard report. You can rotate the images and format them. And because you even can set up a formula that determines which of several live images to display, the Camera tool allows you to include "traffic light" figures in your reports. Chapter 5 discusses the Camera tool in detail, and the sample files include working examples. Linking Your Reports to Databases. You can set up your dashboard reports to return data from an Excel database, a PivotTable, or an Excel-friendly OLAP database. Chapter 6 discusses techniques for using Excel database and PivotTables, and it touches on techniques for using OLAPs. And Chapter 7 discusses Excel databases in detail. How to Create an Excel Dashboard From Scratch. Chapter 8 begins with an empty spreadsheet and ends with a completed dashboard report, showing you each step along the way. The files that come with the kit include the completed dashboard, which is linked to an Excel database. Dashboard Design Ideas. Business magazines are an excellent source for dashboard design ideas. To help you get the most from those magazines, Chapter 9 provides a wide variety of magazine figures, and shows Excel versions of those figures. The files include the actual spreadsheets that duplicate the magazines' charts and tables. The Sample Files. The files that come with the e-book kit include:
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Benefits of Creating and Using Excel Dashboard Reports |
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Gain Faster Insight: Using many small charts communicates complex information more quickly. Show Any Data: Display any trends from any source, internal or external. Show any type of data: sales, medical, financial, HR, operational, economic, market, etc. And show any currency, or other unit of measure. Use a Flexible Database: Use many methods to populate your Excel database. Copy and paste data from any sources, including the Web. Link your database workbooks to other sources, including PivotTables, CSV files, ODBC databases, and so on. Or key in your data from printed publications. Avoid the IT Department: You can create professional-quality reports using only Excel. The IT department doesn't need to get involved. See Related Patterns of Performance: Displaying many small charts and tables on one page often reveals patterns of performance...patterns that are hidden when charts are on displayed on many screens or when data is presented as columns of numbers. Give Managers More Control Over Their Reports: As an Excel user, you can change your Excel dashboard reports quickly and easily. This gives your managers more control over the design of the reports they receive. Save Money:
Using Excel dashboards is virtually free, because you already own Excel
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More Testimonials |
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"I have used executive dashboards created by Charley Kyd at ExcelUser.com for over two years to consolidate and proactively manage project measures against plan and forecast for multiple research and development sites around the world. "Each of the dashboards is published in a PDF format
to allow a historical reference by project by site and is
available to multiple users to view in the common PDF format.
The visually intuitive reporting designed by Charley Kyd and the
PDF repository work very well together to quickly review
activities and learn from historical trends." "The book is fabulous!" Clarence Daniel Knowledge Manager Green Mountain Energy Co. "By the way, your book was excellent. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and insights." Nathan Schaan Controller Georgia-Pacific Corporation "...the best 50 bucks I've ever spent. I am absolutely pleased. I would recommend it to anyone just for the charting tips! " Chip Griswold Consultant to a major New York newspaper "I bought your book recently and I must say it's fun and a pleasure to read and to work with." Viktoria Kryzhanyuk Manager Analysis & Planning Consumer Lending American Express Bank in Germany "Your E-Book is amazing. I consider myself an Excel expert, but I have already picked up a few items I was not aware of and I have only read the first three chapters. I expect to purchase more of your e-books for my finance team. This book is better than any Excel class I have ever taken!" Jeff Smith CFO Montefiore Home Health Program/Medical Group "I love the product! The dashboards are great and the book is very helpful and well written." Kelly L Martin Senior Research Analyst Ministry of Children and Family Development "I find the book to be vastly better than I had anticipated and easily of higher caliber than a lot of the books on Excel that can be found at the local bookstore chains." Alan Johnson Market Development Mgr Major Oil Company Affiliate "The book has been great, & has given me a lot of ideas about how I could use dashboards to present a mix of financial and statistical data." Mark Lees Engineering Mgr Vitafibres "Just wanted to let you know that between the book and the files we bought I have really ramped up my Excel skills and made some tricky reports a breeze!" Denise L. Johnson Finance Coordinator Progressive Components "I am just writing to tell you about how helpful your book has been... "I am sending you the advance I have achieved so far. The report is incomplete because all the information for it is still being generated. But I wanted to share it with you... "Your book is well written and very clear on every explanation." "We'll need to train the different levels of management before we distribute our dashboards. Most of them hate this, of course, because with limited reports they were not held accountable for results. Now they will be, and their bonus will be tied to the results achieved and measured. "You have no idea how much your publication "Dashboard
Reporting with Excel" has helped
me and my clients." "Thank you very much for the dashboard package. It is absolutely brilliant! I have been an Excel business user for many years and
have learnt more
from your publication than from any of the courses that I have attended." "With your help and the information in your eBook, I’m creating a dashboard report the likes of which my company has never seen. I’m sure I’ll get lots of questions and this will give me a ton of visibility in the organization." Scott Papay Six Sigma Black Belt Trane Residential "I wanted to let you know that the product has been extremely helpful in implementing a new dashboard tool for our department. I've been an Excel user for over 7 years and the info in your ebook has enlighten me many times over." Chuong Ma Product Analyst Triad Financial "Thanks for the opportunity to buy your book. I thought I knew a lot about charts. I program extensively in Excel, but your book shows how much I didn't know. I have seen tips in your book that I have never seen in countless manuals I have purchased over the years. " Richard de Manincor Developer Entellitrix Consulting "Charley Kyd's e-book is an unbelievable value for the price I paid. "I've seen bonehead, half-baked programs & reporting modules for which my Fortune 200 company has paid consultants and programmers hundreds of thousands of dollars. But they can't do half the great things that Charley's ideas deliver. "They're fully customizable, fully adaptable to your business...the way you need your information. "The key to great business decisions is the management and reporting of data. Charley provides the "great reporting" part. "With fantastic and simple visuals to help the mind grasp the numeric trends, Charley's work turns my data into a gold mine.
"All the results without the $100K expense. Charley isn't just smart
...he's honest!" "Thought I'd send you a quick email to update you on my progress with dashboards. "It must be well over 2 years since I bought your ebook &
samples. At the time I was engineering manager for Vitafibres in the UK (I
think one of my comments is still on your website somewhere!). I still think
that dashboard reports are one of the neatest things I've ever done in
Excel. Initially, I was using a dashboard to report energy usage for monthly
management meetings. I followed on from that by using them to create PPM & TPM summary reports. In all these areas the use of
dashboards saved me hours
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"Your dashboard kit is excellent." Francis Hayden Any Title I Feel Like Francis Hayden Ltd "I bought your e-book, "Dashboard Reporting With Excel" last year – a fantastic purchase!" Kevin Hodge "Thanks for revolutionizing the way I process and present month-end data and results. "Buying your e-book was the best thing I've done for myself in a long, long time. "I've forced our CIO to purchase it as well." "Your book is fantastic! Have learned more from that book than I have in 20 years of using spreadsheets." Albert J Rossman Senior Manager, Financial Integration Abbott Laboratories "What a great book! "Now I can apply my newfound charting skills to
quickly create dashboards on how my trust line of business is performing." "A godsend! I wish I had purchased your ebook a lot sooner." Peter Cassinelli Analyst/Programmer SCA Systems Ltd. "The book is a joy! Your writing is simple, elegant, and clear. So mahalo nui loa, as we say in Hawai`i – thank you for your very great effort." Toddy Hagans Data Specialist Hamakua Health Ctr "I purchased your book and it has been an awesome tool. I was made aware of your resources while I was earning my MBA. I'm so glad I saved that link because this material is helping me complete this high profile task." Warren Walker Copy & Print Services Midwest Manager Duke Energy "All I can say is fabulous! It's unbelievable what I have been missing for years. "The Camera functionality alone makes the small cost of your book and files worth every penny and more. "Excellent, many thanks." John Rixon Assoc Business Manager Kraft Foods Inc "Your book was of immense help to me. I produce dashboards on a regular basis in my life as a CFO and generally have reduced time on spreadsheet hell." Shaun Spalding CFO Autolocator (Moscow, Russia) "I purchased the Dashbord Kit and I think it’s brilliant. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes." Sami Järvensivu Business Controller Fläkt Woods Ltd. Finland "Fabulous. Simply fabulous. "Having built large systems with Excel, including significant VBA code, I was already very familiar with most of the topics. But it's your implementation of all of it combined that is truly stellar." Alexander Cavalaris Fin'l Rptg Analyst Earth Tech Canada "The dashboard e-book is absolutely awesome! "I didn’t realize Excel could do what I wanted it do! "I’ve started setting up our dashboards to update the look of our
annual report." "I purchased your book this morning! Love it!" Dallan Lax Owner Streamline Business Solutions, LLC "Bought the book and the files. So far, wow-wee!" Alex Ortolano Marketing Product Manager Company Withheld "Your book (or the results thereof) has made a big splash here at the office." Allen Watts Operations Mgr, F2B Mobile Solutions "An excellent book! Well worth the money. "It has saved me vast
amounts of time." "I purchased your ebook and find it fascinating!" Celeste Gannon Travel Data Analyst Nortel Global Travel Services "Let me start off by thanking you for putting together this package - it has a plethora of useful tips and information!" Daraius Dubash Financial Analyst Cummins Inc. "I'm reading your book and I'm amazed because it's unique. I didn't think that in the ocean of Excel books around I can find something I never read before." Leonid Koyfman Senior Analitics DBA AvenueA Razorfish "I purchased your Dashboard Reporting With Excel last night and found it full of stimulating and practical ideas." Peter Quirk Principal Product Manager, Business Operations EMC Software Grp. "Your eBook is an awesome tool. I've been reading this every day and building some great dashboards from your examples. " Roderick Goodman Enterprise Technology Group The First American Corp. "Excellent product! "I thought I was a pretty good driver of Excel but I am learning a huge amount. "Please keep me up to date with new products. I will pass the word!" David Border Managing Director DBCC "I recently acquired your Dashboard kit and find it loaded with useful tips. You have designed a very nice, very helpful tool." Bob Gannon President Gannon Consulting, Inc. "Your book is excellent. It offers clear and precise advice for practical purposes. It is highly recommended." Flemming Petersen Business Controller Geberit A/S "Great book! You clearly have been working with Excel for a long time." Joe Little President Jet Reports |
