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 ...

The Traditional Role of Excel Excel, with its roots dating back to Lotus-123 and VisiCalc, is the go-to tool for creating data tables.

Excel's Linked Picture tool lets you take a snapshot of some data and paste it as an image—handy if you're compiling a dashboard of the key metrics from across your workbook. Unlike normal ...