Excel Explained: Utilizing Dashboards
Friday, October 18, 2019
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern

Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, introduces participants to Excel dashboards in this broad-reaching presentation. Dashboards give you the ability to quickly assimilate large amounts of data into spreadsheets by way of pivot tables, charts, and other Excel features, including the Recommended Charts feature, PivotTable feature, PivotChart feature, Quick Analysis feature, and others. After the webinar, you’ll be equipped to summarize and present your Excel data in an efficient manner.

David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Office 365 version of Excel. David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2019, 2016, 2013, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.

Office 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new-feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don’t change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and so on.

Topics Covered:

• Creating self-updating titles for charts and pivot charts.
• Exploring the Recommended Charts feature in Excel 2013 and later.
• Discovering how Microsoft Query allows you to create self-updating links to databases, spreadsheets, text files, and other data sources.
• Seeing how the Sparkline feature empowers you to create tiny, in-cell charts for showing trends of data.
• Using the Group and Ungroup feature to expand or collapse rows and/or columns. • Jump-starting data visualization with the Quick Analysis feature.
• Filtering pivot table data based on date ranges by way of the Timeline feature in Excel 2013 and later.
• Learning how to hide or unhide Excel’s Ribbon interface using a simple macro technique.
• Creating dynamic and interactive graphs with Excel’s PivotChart feature.
• Using the Linked Picture feature to place pivot tables in close proximity to each other without posing conflicts.
• Understanding how to use the Slicer feature to streamline data analysis within tables and pivot tables.
• Creating a dashboard that looks less like an Excel spreadsheet by hiding screen elements.

Who Should Attend?   

Practitioners tasked with summarizing large amounts of data in Excel spreadsheets.

Speaker:

David Ringstrom

David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is an author and nationally recognized instructor who teaches scores of webinars each year. His Excel courses are based on over 25 years of consulting and teaching experience. David’s mantra is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should, know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. To learn more about David, you can view his LinkedIn profile and follow him on Facebook or Twitter (@excelwriter).

Attendance verification for CE credits provided upon request.

Webinar Sponsored by Total Training Solutions

If you are having issues with registering online, please contact CBAO's Education & Training Coordinator, Lianne Simeone, (614) 610-1877.