Design and Create Custom Dashboards in Excel

Dashboards can be used at every level of an organization to provide value, track progress and KPIs, and reveal insights. Organisations are working with more data every day and the skills to create dashboards in Excel are in high demand.

On this six-week course from The Excel Club, you will learn how to build dashboards from scratch before putting this knowledge into practice by creating three informative and visually stunning interactive Excel Dashboards.

This practical course will guide you through Excel dashboard design and creation from start to finish.

You’ll begin by discussing the three types of dashboard before covering the basics of creating them. You’ll also learn the top tips for creating a dashboard as well as the most common mistakes to avoid to ensure your dashboards work effectively.

As you progress through this course, you’ll move through each step of the dashboard creation process, helping you to make your dashboards dynamic.

Once you’ve learnt the step-by-step process, you’ll learn how to automate charts with named ranges, linking the data, using the offset function, and then linking charts to names. You’ll also focus on the INDEX function to use on subsets of data.

Before working on your own dashboards, this course will take you through how to change charts using different tools. You’ll explore setting up data validation and changing the charts with VLookup, as well as how to add form controls and implement them to change charts.

In the final week of this course, you’ll create three different dashboards, each with their own data and objectives to help you put your new skills into practice.