PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft

13. Final Formatting: Making the Report Not Look Like Excel

In This Chapter

Charts Should Have Less Ink, More Information 267

Trying to Tame the Slicers 276

Remove Excel Interface Elements 279

Making a Report Look Like a Dashboard 280

Adding a Picture as a Top Banner 282

It is easy to create powerful reporting structures with PowerPivot. You can have one set of slicers that are driving multiple charts. As an Excel data analyst, you can appreciate the analytical power that PowerPivot brings to the table.

There is a good chance that your PowerPivot models are going to make it to the boardroom, either as a standalone model or as a SharePoint report.

This chapter focuses on some final formatting that you can do to make the report not look like ...