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Microsoft, Pimp Down My Ribbon
There has been a lot of criticism regarding Excel 2007, particularly about the new chart engine, the UI inconsistencies and the Ribbon. Jorge yesterday concluded that Excel 2007 is Useless and Jon...
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Scott MacCloud Pesents Google Chrome
Scott MacCloud comic writer and expert in visual communication created a set of wonderful, information dense comic pages for Google’s new web browser Google Chrome. He presents on 38 pages the...
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Olympics Treemap
The 2012 London Olympics have now finished, and as a UK company we were pleased to see the games were such a success, and of course that team GB did so spectacularly well! We’re looking forward now to...
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Creating rounded corners in Excel – revisited
Today we’re revisiting one of our more popular guides, Creating rounded corners in Excel Tables, and have updated it for v7.1. When Igor Asselbergs was contemplating the value of round corners in...
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Current and Previous month reporting made easy
We’ve all been there. Our shiny new dashboard or report pack is finished and ready to go meet its users. We’ve presented the key information clearly, we’ve followed all the data vis guidelines on...
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Some Excel BI myths debunked #2: Inflexible Charting
#2: Inflexible Charting Continuing our discussion of common criticisms of Excel focused BI, let’s take a look at charting. “Excel charts are static, inflexible and you need to start from scratch if you...
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Some Excel BI myths debunked: #3 – limited dashboards
#3: Limited and difficult to Maintain Dashboards Third on our list of common criticisms of Excel focused BI, is the limitations of Excel Dashboards. “Excel dashboards are ugly, limited, and...
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Custom drill paths for Analysis Services reporting
Any business report will answer a predefined set of questions, but it will often give rise to many additional queries and chains of thought as the user wants to explore any oddities or anomalies in...
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Some Excel BI myths debunked – #6: Excel based BI can’t handle report sharing...
Here we continue our theme on the myths which get propagated about Excel based BI. The next argument is that Excel BI cannot handle widespread report sharing and distribution. Base case we actually...
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The Missing Link in Excel BI
When viewing a high level summary report or dashboard, users often want to delve into more detail on a specific area. In some cases that may be a drill down, in many others it may be to a different...
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Icon-based Navigation and Filtering in XLCubed
Version 9 introduced an embedded icon library and XL3PictureLink, which together make the creation of icon-led navigation and filtering simple. XL3PictureLink provides the same parameterised navigation...
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User control of dashboard layouts
Dashboard sheets were introduced with V9, primarily as a way to deliver mobile-friendly reporting with a responsive UI to auto-fit any screen size. Specific Targets which define the layout can be...
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Charting the Premier League Transfer Window
This summer English Premier league clubs spent more than ever before on player transfers, a staggering £1.47bn in total. Some spent a lot more than others, and while PSG are making the Financial Fair...
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Using Slicers for Sheet Navigation
Slicers are normally used to change filter selections in a report, but a less well-known use is for report navigation, to allow users to jump to another location in the workbook. Here I have a report...
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