How to enhance your Excel dashboards with Power View reports

Dashboards in Microsoft® Excel® are used for visually presenting important business information. Dashboards can display current status of metrics and key performance indicators. In this tip, we look at how to enhance dashboards with a Power View report by analyzing sales data. Power View reports in Microsoft® Excel® pull your data together in tables, matrices, […]

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How to create quarters in Excel

Currently, there’s no function that will convert dates into quarters in Microsoft® Excel®.  However, using the CHOOSE function, we can easily convert dates into quarters in Excel. The CHOOSE function returns a value from a list of items based on a position number. For example, if we had a function =CHOOSE(3,”Apples”,”Bananas”,”Peaches”,”Pineapples”) the function would return […]

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