January 2016
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
8h 46m
English
Content preview from Excel Dashboards and Reports for Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Chapter 14
Sharing Your Workbook with the Outside World
In This Chapter
Controlling access to your dashboards and reports
Displaying your Excel dashboards in PowerPoint
Saving your dashboards and reports to a PDF file
Publishing your dashboards to the web
Let’s face it: You’re not making these dashboards and reports for your health. At some point, you’ll want to share your handiwork with others. The focus of this chapter is on preparing your dashboards for life outside your PC. Here, I help you explore the various methods of protecting your work from accidental and intentional meddling and show how you can distribute your dashboards via PowerPoint, PDF, and the web.
Protecting Your Dashboards and Reports
You’ve put in a ton of hours getting your dashboard and reports to work the way you want them to. The last thing you need is to have a clumsy client or an overzealous power user botching up your Excel file.
Before distributing any Excel-based work, you should always consider protecting your file using the protection capabilities native to Excel. Although none of Excel’s protection ...
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