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Excel Dashboards and Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Excel Dashboards and Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Michael Alexander
January 2016
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
8h 46m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Giving Users an Interactive Interface

In This Chapter

arrow Introducing Form controls

arrow Using a Button control

arrow Using a Check Box control to toggle a chart series

arrow Using an Option Button control to filter your views

arrow Using a combo box to control multiple pivot tables

arrow Using a list box to control multiple charts

Today, business professionals increasingly want to be empowered to switch from one view of data to another with a simple list of choices. For those who build dashboards and reports, this empowerment comes with a whole new set of issues. The overarching question is — how do you handle a user who wants to see multiple views for multiple regions or markets?

Fortunately, Excel offers a handful of tools that enable you to add interactivity into your presentations. With these tools and a bit of creative data modeling, you can accomplish these goals with relative ease. In this chapter, ...

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