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Microsoft Excel Dashboards for Business Professionals

Business, Engineering and Science

Workshop Details

Type: Business Professionals

Platform: Windows

Versions: 97-2007

Training: Hands-On

Public Training: Dates and Signup

Public Location: Thousand Oaks, CA , LAX/Thousand Oaks

Hotel: Thousand Oaks Inn

Web Cast Information: Details, Signup

Onsite Training: Details

*Our Beginning VBA and Advanced VBA business workshops also cover dashboard construction while building your Excel VBA skills.


Workshop and Manual Overview

In this Microsoft Excel dashboard  3-day "hands-on" business workshop, you will learn:

  • What is VBA?
  • A Microsoft Excel VBA language review emphasizing dashboard construction
  • General VBA programming techniques for analyzing and organizing business data for use in Microsoft Excel dashboards
  • Advanced data analysis calculations using VBA and worksheet functions
  • How to fully command Excel's visual interface including drawing shapes, pictures, cells
  • How to align Excel's visual elements on the worksheet and create timelines, meters, performance diagrams, trees...etc using VBA
  • How to process data from multiple workbooks / multiple worksheets and organize their charts on a single worksheet using VBA
  • How to open multiple workbook files automatically using the Windows filing system and VBA
  • How to open and read text file downloads
  • How to communicate with databases (SQL Server, Access, ...) using DAO and ADO
  • How to construct an interface that controls your Excel dashboard application using ActiveX controls and VBA
  • How to create events (automated procedures) for your Excel dashboard applications
  • How to command Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for dashboard report purposes

Microsoft Excel Dashboards Overview

The capability exists within Microsoft Excel and Excel VBA to construct sophisticated dashboards that integrate seamlessly with data based in Microsoft Excel or in other external data sources. Using a combination of the Excel worksheet, drawing shapes, pictures, ActiveX controls, cells and charts, sophisticated dashboards can be constructed in minimal time providing a cost effective way of a business to view its important data. Many companies are turning to constructing dashboards in Excel due to the lower cost, lower development time and because of Excel's exceptional abilities.


Workshop Topics (Every part of our workshop is hands-on)

Day-1

  • General Microsoft Excel VBA language review emphasizing Excel dashboard construction
  • Overview on how to use Excel as a dashboard for data
  • New ways of using Excel components
  • How to use VBA to command worksheets (borders, fonts, cell colors, backgrounds...) drawing shapes, charts, pictures and ActiveX controls
  • How to create timelines, meters, performance diagrams, trees...etc using Microsoft Excel and VBA
  • How to align Excel's visual elements on the Excel worksheet

Day-2

  • How to read text files and command the Windows filing system (Open, Close, Delete..) using VBA
  • How to process data from multiple workbooks / multiple worksheets and organize their charts on a single worksheet using VBA
  • Advanced data analysis calculations using VBA and worksheet functions
  • How to create a look for your dashboard application (graphics, headers, gradients...)
  • How to construct an interface that controls your Excel dashboard application using ActiveX controls and VBA
  • How to construct navigation for your dashboard application using VBA

 Day-3

  • How to communicate with databases (SQL Server, Access, ...) using DAO and ADO in VBA
  • How to command Microsoft Word and PowerPoint for dashboard report purposes
  • Discussion on how to use VB .Net and VB 6.0 to enhance your dashboards including examples.

Workshop Materials

  • The workshop manual contains helpful Microsoft Excel VBA programming topics and code in a user-friendly format.
  • The manual illustrates Microsoft Excel VBA topics using state of the art screen shots and 3-D graphics.
  • Each workshop participant receives a comprehensive CD-ROM that contains the workshop examples and reading materials.

Who Should Attend 

  • Microsoft Excel VBA users with a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the VBA language.
  • It is intended for all types of business professionals.

EMAGENIT's Public Training Location

Public Location: Thousand Oaks, CA , LAX/Thousand Oaks

Hotel: Thousand Oaks Inn

EMAGENIT is based in Thousand Oaks, California which is in the vicinity of Los Angeles county (LA County), Ventura county, Santa Barbara county and San Diego county. We hold all of our on-site courses nation wide. Our public workshops are a short commute for those living in the Santa Barbara, San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, Newbury Park, Camarillo, Calabasas, Sherman Oaks, Reseda, Woodland Hills, Hollywood, Fillmore, Ventura, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Santa Monica and Oxnard areas. For more information about our public workshops, visit our public workshops page our call us at the number above.

EMAGENIT Webcast Workshops
Webcast training for Microsoft Excel VBA and Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel Dashboards is being offered over the web via live webcast (Details, Signup). Our web cast workshops are:

  • Hands-on

  • Voice interactive

  • We use GoToMeeting, SKYPE and conference calling for customer integration. We can reach anywhere in the world that has an internet connection.

  • Our class sizes are limited to 10 attendees so you can discuss your particular problems.

We also provide on-site training using our web cast system. To learn more about our webcast workshops click here or call us at 805.498.7162.

 
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EMAGENIT received an award for its involvement with NASA JPL in helping redesign and integrate their conceptual Rover mission software in Microsoft Excel. Click the picture above for more detail about our Rover involvement. To learn more about the NASA mission to mars click here.

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