Most Power BI dashboards are just decorated spreadsheets
Three slicers and a card don't turn a spreadsheet into a data model, and the columns you didn't build are exactly where it falls apart.
Reporting
// 5 postsTutorials, tips, and deep dives on Reporting — every post from bianca.codes tagged Reporting.
Reporting posts
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Build a mail-merge report in Word straight from an Excel table
One clean Excel table and a Word template are all it takes for forty personalised reports, once the wizard is driven properly.
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The dashboard I built that nobody opened
Three months of polish, a great demo, and a usage metrics report that told a very different story once the meeting was over.
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Build a dynamic dashboard with XLOOKUP and one drop-down
One drop-down cell, four XLOOKUP formulas, and every number on the dashboard updates itself - no PivotTable, no slicer, no VBA in sight.
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Build a self-updating summary slide in PowerPoint linked to Excel
Paste Link turns three Excel cells into a PowerPoint object that updates itself, once you stop letting the linked range look like a spreadsheet.