5 Design Tips for Better Excel Reports & Dashboards

I take you through 5 design tips that help create better Excel Reports and Dashboards.

🎥 Video Highlights:
- Explore five key design principles for Excel reports and dashboards.
- Learn how to use contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity, and balance to highlight crucial data.
- Discover the role of color in enhancing dashboard readability and aesthetics.

🔑 Key Insights:
- Contrast: Amplify critical KPIs and improve readability.
- Alignment: Showcase data relationships for intuitive understanding.
- Repetition: Create visual associations for quick data interpretation.
- Proximity: Organize content for focused attention.
- Balance: Achieve visual harmony in your dashboard layout.

🎨 Why This Video is a Must-Watch:
- Perfect for Excel users aiming to elevate their reporting skills.
- Essential for professionals tasked with data presentation and analysis.
- Great for anyone looking to make their Excel dashboards stand out.

5 tips to create the best Excel dashboard:
1. Create emphasis: Add a strong contrast to headings to show at a glance the KPIs on display in your Excel dashboard.
2. Connect different elements: Show relationships with alignment.
3. Draw parallels and create associations: Two things that should be repeated consistently in your dashboard are abbreviations and color usage.
4. Organize content and create focal points: Think about proximity. What will you choose to group or separate?
5. Balance large elements with smaller elements

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[usmanmirjat]

Hello Dear Leila, a small compliment for you - your way of explaining things is just wonderful. I work for a Charity Organization - MSF/Doctors without Borders, your video tutorials are helping a lot and you have an indirect contribution to charity! Stay blessed.

[michaeldiamond]

Great video Leila. I like how you stepped back and put into words like nuances that we might or might not intuitively be aware of. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. Look forward to taking your course!.

Michael

[excelisfun]

That was an amazing and succinct lesson in efficient visual communication!!!!

[pathakullahrubina]

GREAT, Daily Early morning I'm spending time with your video only. I'm working in Manufacturing company and too much interesting to learn excel and VBA. your video is help to me as international level. thanks.

[agabamn]

Am learning so much from your previous tutorials ...thanks alot.

[balajis]

Hi Leila there are some people who are poor and try to learn but the course fees is more i am one of them your are like god to me.please continue this good work

[valerianverdy]

You're such an excel angel.. Thanks a lot Leila..
You've given me the inspiration for my dashboards.
Best of luck, looking forward to your future dashboard tutorials..
Verdy

[mohamedbadawy]

Thank you very much ....
I realy like your apperance and its very helpfull to understating....
Best regards

[kahnzo]

You really make these ideas so clear. Thanks you.

[breakingbad]

Hi Leila, thanks you so much due to share us this video. Great job. .i hope one day download this dashboard😊 thank you for everything

[edmad]

Love it! Can't wait. I love your lectures good job!!

[muhammadyousuf]

Hi Lelia, hope you're doing superb, i have gone through different platforms to review the excel tutorial but your tutorial for excel keep me amazing & very much impressed & I'm comfortably doing implementation on my business daily inshort i do highly appreciated for your effort & time to teach via this tremendous platform. 😊

[mmincredible]

👌Leila simple and clear, I love ur voice 🇮🇳

[tahirhanif]

Fantastic videos, I have watched a few now. You are a genius it's so easy to follow the steps. Thank you

[liyana]

Wow. I didn't expect to learn so much in less than 5 minutes - thank you!!

[andrewmoss]

This is great advice — particularly for us geeks who pay most attention to the data and functionality as opposed to the aesthetics of a worksheet!

[kaaa]

Hi Leila, Thank you so much for these tutorial and how simple you make it for anyone to understand it. I work in a foster children and I have a form in excell that I send to the region to fill out about the children and any services we provided. Most the time, the don't know if the form is sent to me or not. How to make it simple? so everytime they fill out the form, it will be collected the data of the form in a different worksheet as a table. they only have to check the table to see if they send it to me.
Usually in the form we have, date of service, name of service, child name, child case number. one child can have more than one services.
Thank you so much.

[irviantantohaditomo]

Awesome....I will give you my two thumbs. It's how to presented to the big boss...thank you Leila

[dmnslyr]

This is nice and echos the same items from Robin William’s “The Non-Designer’s Design Book”

[the_solorider]

Dear Laila,
Hope you are doing well...

I wold like to know, how did you created the small graph in the column which shows the opposite direction for negative and positive value.
for reference :- In this video where you showing the Centre line in Tips no. 2 (Profit graph)