Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies 1st Edition by Michael Alexander (PDF)

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As the fastest growing dashboarding solution on the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to transform the contents of an ordinary Excel spreadsheet into an engaging, interactive Flash-based dashboardOffers step-by-step instruction on the wide array of functionality that Xcelsius has to offer so that readers can complete mini-dashboards of increasing complexity with each chapterAddresses how to prepare Excel spreadsheets for use with Xcelsius dashboards and then use basic components of Xcelsius (charts, buttons, labels)Shows ways to add advanced functionality to dashboards (gauges, sliders, maps) and create interactive business calculators with XcelsiusDiscusses integrating Xcelsius reports into PowerPoint slides, Web pages, and e-mail

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Build cool interactive dashboards to explain your dataCreate charts, maps, and gauges, slice data into various views, and more — easily!Crystal Xcelsius is like a rocket-booster that lets you turn your Excel spreadsheets into professional-looking dashboards, scorecards, “what if” visualizations, even highly polished PowerPoint presentations. And here’s the know-how you need to use it! Build simple to sophisticated dashboards, add buttons, refresh your data, create a visual model with style, and much more.Discover how toCreate basic dashboards with gauges and slidersBuild in interactivityUse color to explain dataAdd menus and selectorsWork with dynamic visibilityFormat and distribute your dashboards From the Back Cover Build cool interactive dashboards to explain your dataCreate charts, maps, and gauges, slice data into various views, and more — easily!Crystal Xcelsius is like a rocket-booster that lets you turn your Excel spreadsheets into professional-looking dashboards, scorecards, “what if” visualizations, even highly polished PowerPoint presentations. And here’s the know-how you need to use it! Build simple to sophisticated dashboards, add buttons, refresh your data, create a visual model with style, and much more.Discover how toCreate basic dashboards with gauges and slidersBuild in interactivityUse color to explain dataAdd menus and selectorsWork with dynamic visibilityFormat and distribute your dashboards About the Author Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) with over 14 years of experience developing office solutions and consulting. He currently works as a Senior Program Manager for EDS. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I liked this book a lot. I enjoyed the writing and even tough it was a Dummies book, it contained all the information that I needed to be able to get started mastering Crystal Xcelsius.

⭐Is the best option to begin you in this excellent software like Xcelsius…It is importat that you consider this book your initiation to after be a PRO using more complex dashboards (with the practice I mean!)

⭐The ‘For Dummies’ books have done it again. This is a complete and thourough introduction to using Xcelsius to give you an entirely new set of sophisticated ways to show Excel data in graphical form.Xcelsius specializes in what they call dashboards. That is, the data is diaplayed in the form of gauges (speedometer, gas gauge, they even have what they call ‘alerts’ that are close to idiot lights). You can also design inputs in the form of sliders, buttons, again, not unlike an automobile dashboard.In addition to dashboards there are other features such a maps, enhanced charts, pictures — all kinds of things to ehnance the visual experience of a presentation.Technically, Xcelsius compiles your visual model into a Flash (.swf) file and creates an HTML file that calls the .swf file. The HTML file is of course presented using a web browser, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Outlook, or Plumtree.As in most ‘For Dummies’ books, this one starts slow, builds on the base, and by the end of the book you have a pretty good idea about the whole thing.

⭐While Xcelsius is a great tool, the model is the substance behind the image. This software makes presentation simple and powerful (and has a bit of the ‘wow’ factor, especially when sending interactive .pdfs) but the real issue is building the underlying model.In chapter 15, the ‘real world examples,’ none of the Excel models are shown. A big omission. It would have been so easy to add the 15 excel files to the ‘Bonus material.’

⭐This is a very good resource for beginners, however its not an ideal Reference book while working on Xcelsius. Buy this book, if you are new to xcelsius. The chapters are very well organized and will help you get started easily.[…

⭐After being assigned to produce Dashboards for our company, I tried to read and understand the manual. I saw the Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies and thought I would give it a try. This book had me up and running in 2 days and I actually understood “why” things were happening. This is a great book for beginners and has a hands on approach to the learning, which I find extremely helpful. This book is for anyone who wants to learn Crystal Xcelsius in a hurry.

⭐I used this book as a training manual to learn Xcelsius. The instructions were very clear and easy to follow. The chapters build on each other. It starts with the basics and you can build your simple dashboards immediately from this section. However you need to go through the whole book to really see the power and versatility of this application. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn Crystal Xcelsius.

⭐I purchased this book back in 2010 for myself and a team of performance analysts. The book was well thumbed as a reference guide, and provided many useful examples. It was useful in the planning of good, visual and informative dashboards, and generally displaying data in a pre-analysed and user friendly manner. Not something that I would read cover to cover, but a handy book to keep around for early Xcelsius users.

⭐Xcelsius is a wonderful product and it is not too difficult, but some help with the nuances was necessary in my case.This book is based on the old version of Xcelsius and that is not made clear when you purchase it. Naturally the examples you get with it the book are also based on the old version. Unfortunately that does mean that not everything works as you expect it to.

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