Create Charts and Dashboards Using Microsoft Excel

Overview

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In this project, you will learn how to create charts in Microsoft Excel to analyze sales data of a sample company. You will learn how to create PivotTables to assess different aspects of the sales information, and represent the information from the tables as line, bar, and pie charts. When creating the charts, you will learn how to format them so they are easily interpreted and you will then assemble the charts in a dashboard to provide a global picture of the sales data.

Syllabus

Project Overview

In this project, you will learn how to create Charts and Dashboards in Microsoft Excel using sales data from a sample company. You will use PivotTables to look at discrete trends in the data, which you will then represent as line, bar, and pie charts. Towards the end of the project, you will summarize the sales data creating a dashboard composed of the charts and tables to provide a global picture of the sales data.