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Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies, 4th Edition
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Excel Dashboards & Reports For Dummies, 4th Edition

by Michael Alexander
April 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
384 pages
9h 47m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Formatting Your Way to Visualizations

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Using conditional formatting

Bullet Working with symbols in formulas

Bullet Using the Camera tool

Bullet Using shapes to enhance Excel reports

Visualization is the presentation of abstract concepts or data in visual terms through some sort of graphical imagery. A traffic light, for example, is a visualization of the abstract concepts of stop-and-go.

In the business world, visualizations help us communicate and process the meaning of data faster than simple tables of numbers. Excel offers business analysts a wide array of features that can be used to add visualizations to dashboards and reports.

In this chapter, you explore some of the formatting techniques you can leverage to add layers of visualizations that can turn your data into meaningful views.

Enhancing Reports with Conditional Formatting

Conditional formatting is the term given to Excel’s capability to dynamically change the formatting of a value, cell, or range of cells based on a set of conditions you define. Conditional formatting adds a level of visualization that allows you ...

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