Step-by-step tutorial on creating an analytical dashboard in Excel that updates automatically using a pre-designed template or from scratch.

How to Create a Dashboard in Excel 2007. Microsoft Excel 2007 provided many new features over its predecessors and, to make it more useful in the workplace, it also offered additional tools for ...

Excel's Linked Picture tool lets you take a snapshot of some data and paste it as an image—handy if you're compiling a dashboard of the key metrics from across your workbook.

There are many ways to create a dashboard in Excel, but my preferred method may surprise you.