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Secrets to Building Excel Dashboards in Under 15 Minutes

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April 27, 2021 by Mynda Treacy

Building Excel Dashboards doesn't need to be a slow process. When your data is structured correctly you can use the built in tools (that you probably already know), to build dashboards super fast. Let me show you how in the video below.

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  1. Bonnie

    February 10, 2022 at 11:19 am

    Excellent video! I only had one issue and that was with the category slicer. Clicking on Accessories, Bikes, etc., the individual colors by category turned to blue (lines/columns) in all four charts instead. If all categories on the slicer are selected, the proper colors appear.

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    • Mynda Treacy

      February 10, 2022 at 6:01 pm

      Hi Bonnie,

      This is a Pivot chart limitation. If you want specific colours to be retained when you filter using a Slicer, then you need to build a regular chart from a PivotTable.

      Mynda

      Reply
  2. Matthew Lusk

    February 3, 2022 at 6:32 am

    Great video and I have subscribed to your channel. Thanks Mynda.

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  3. Matthew Lusk

    February 3, 2022 at 6:31 am

    Always good learning material. Thanks Mynda.

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    • Mynda Treacy

      February 3, 2022 at 9:31 am

      Glad you liked it, Matthew! And great to have you as a subscriber to our channel 🙂

      Reply
  4. BRAHIM

    August 12, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    Excellent video, Thanks,

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    • Mynda Treacy

      August 13, 2021 at 9:52 am

      Our pleasure 🙂

      Reply
  5. Oksana

    August 12, 2021 at 5:09 am

    Hi Mynda,
    This is an excellent video! Amazing! It’s gonna take me way more than 15 minutes but I’ll get it done.
    I have a question: What if you needed to retrieve the data you have on the “Data” tab from an Internet source and update it periodically? How would you approach this task? Thanks!

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    • Mynda Treacy

      August 12, 2021 at 6:59 pm

      Glad you liked it, Oksana! To automate the gathering of data from the web, you can use Power Query: https://www.myonlinetraininghub.com/get-data-from-the-web-with-power-query

      Reply
  6. Laurence Rockwell

    June 16, 2021 at 12:18 pm

    Excellent video. Well presented. Good idea to watch first then down load the example Excel file and try to replicate the process. My challenge: I am running build 14026.20270 and the slicer settings function in the ribbon is greyed out. How do I enable the slicer settings or for that matter any greyed out function? I purchased this copy of Excel with my computer. I keep getting this error message: “Your organization’s administrator turned off the service required to use this feature.”

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    • Mynda Treacy

      June 16, 2021 at 1:42 pm

      Thanks, Laurence. Have you tried accessing the Slicer settings via the right-click button on the Slicer?

      Reply

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