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Excel 2007

I have to do a dashboard everymonth in which I will show performance figures of different areas/factors. I was wondering whether someone could help me to do performace indicators (improved, decreased, same as last month) to the right adjucent column of the figure.

Is there any formula we can create so that the working dashboard will take figures from the relevant columns of previous month and compare whether its an increase, decrease or same and automatically show an indicator (a coloured upward arrow, downward arrow, or a line) on the adjucent right column. Much appreciated

Edited on Tue 12 Aug 2014, 14:04

RE: Excel 2007

Hi Siju

Thanks for getting in touch. Depending on your desired solution, there are many ways to approach this.

I've attached an example that uses HLOOKUPs, IF functions and Data Validation to generate the data, and finally Icon Set Conditional Formatting to display the icon. Explore the workbook and see if it's what you need.

If you'd like further help or other explanations please get in touch.

Kind regards

Gary Fenn
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Attached files...

Performance Dashboard.xlsx

RE: Excel 2007

Mnay thanks for the response. I have two dashboards on different sheets. I could attach those sheets if we have a facility to attach it here. Then you will know excatly what I mean.

RE: Excel 2007

Hi Siju

Thanks for your reply. You can send files to forum@stl-training.co.uk, however I won't be able to look at this until Thursday.

Kind regards

Gary Fenn
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

Tel: 0207 987 3777
Best STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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RE: Excel 2007

Hello.

I was asked to upload the attached file by our management team.

Regards, Rich

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Infection_Control_Dashboard_June_and_July_2014.(3).xlsx

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