Now that you have a basic idea about interactive dashboards in Microsoft Excel, let’s check them out in action. Before beginning, clearly define the purpose and use case for your dashboard.

Image: 200degrees/Adobe Stock. Area charts do a great job of exposing trends in Microsoft Excel data. The good news is that they’re easy to create; the bad news is that the default chart is ...

This area, the core of the interactive chart, displays the active financial series in color-coded lines. These three buttons allow you to download the chart output to Excel, save the chart as an ...