What is the difference between an Excel dashboard report and a traditional Excel template or spreadsheet?
An Excel dashboard report consists of several worksheet documents which allow you to input, update and customize data for immedaite review in the report design worksheet layout. An Excel dashboard report differs from an Excel template in that an Excel template or spreadhseet typically consists of one worksheet where calculations across several data fields combine to perform an end result. Whilst an Excel template is the ideal solution for specific calculations and tasks, for example such as calculating a balance sheet. The Excel dashbaord report is much more indepth document providing several worksheets which are interlinked to allow comparision review and analysis in a resulting report. Updates to data, facts and figures performed in the dashboard worksheets are autmatically updated in the report providing users of Excel dashbaord reports with a dynamic visual overview of many pages of data in a single easy to view report.
