Excel 2007 Dashboards & Reports For Dummies
Chapter One
Getting in the Dashboard
State of Mind
In This Chapter
Comparing dashboards to reports
Getting started on the right foot
Dashboarding best practices
In his song, "New York State of Mind," Billy Joel laments the differences
between California and New York. In this homage to the Big Apple, he
implies a mood and a feeling that comes with thinking about New York. I
admit it's a stretch, but I'll to extend this analogy to Excel - don't laugh.
In Excel, the differences between building a dashboard and creating standard
table-driven analyses are as great as the differences between California and
New York. To approach a dashboarding project, you truly have to get into the
dashboard state of mind. As you'll come to realize in the next few chapters,
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