Simplify your reporting by using VBA to export your Excel dashboards to PowerPoint with ease
If you are using Microsoft Excel to create reporting or analytical dashboards, I bet you are spending some time on transferring your Excel dashboards to PowerPoint presentations.
In a recent series of articles (part 1, part 2, part 3), we discussed 3 dashboards designed to visualize the actual status of a software development project. Only showcases, for sure. A real life example would definitely have more dashboards to cover all necessary information needs, probably all in one consolidated workbook.
As far as my experience goes you are not using Microsoft Excel for project reporting. Instead, I guess your quantitative Excel dashboards will be only a part of your overall project reports. Most of you are using Microsoft PowerPoint for your shareholder and management reports, steering board presentations, project team meetings, etc., don’t you?
So what do you do? Copy each and every dashboard from Excel and paste it into PowerPoint slides manually? A lot of laborious work, isn’t it? But there is a better way: Today’s post shows how to automate the export of your Excel dashboards to PowerPoint. On the fly. As always, including an example workbook for free download.
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