Actionable Excel Tips (Templates Included) You Can Use Right Now to Create Eye-Catching Microsoft Excel Dashboards
InstructorLeila Gharani
The curriculum follows a multi-stage build process for two major dashboards, providing downloadable draft files at various stages to track progress.
Editorial course preview
These 4 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
This Excel dashboard features a dark theme with interactive slicers, custom icons, and detailed data tables to visualize revenue metrics across different regions and divisions.
This Excel dashboard displays financial KPIs for Productivity Apps, featuring a detailed data table with variance indicators and visualizations comparing actual performance against budget.
This Excel wireframe sketch outlines the planned dashboard structure, featuring sections for KPI overviews, detailed data tables, and visual chart placeholders.
This Excel worksheet demonstrates how to use the TEXT function to convert values like revenue, dates, and percentages into formatted text strings using specific custom number formats.
Instruction covers specialized charting methods, including the use of error bars for comparison and creating scrolling line charts.
Learners receive a variety of resources including practice workbooks, design checklists, and color templates to assist in the dashboard creation process.
The core curriculum is primarily based on older versions of Excel; while the update label suggests recent changes, one signal from before that update indicates a need for supplemental learning of modern functions. This signal predates the displayed course update; the update may have addressed it, but the update label does not prove that it was corrected.
One uncertain signal notes difficulty following cursor visibility during lessons, and a specific section on unique identifiers for lookups was noted as conceptually difficult; these signals predated the displayed update, which may have addressed them but does not prove a correction.
The curriculum aligns with the needs of intermediate users building professional reports on Windows.