
Building Dashboards with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2016
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A speedometer chart is a classic dashboard presentation tool, but it's not a chart available in Microsoft Excel. This tool exists in Microsoft Power BI (we'll discuss this in the next chapters), so I am expecting it to appear in Excel at some point. Since it doesn't exist, we will build one.
Speedometer charts are just what you would expect. Like a car speedometer, a speedometer chart has a dial and a needle with the needle moving from left to right, depending on the value. They are extremely useful for showing levels. In our case, we will build one that shows the level of cash. We'll add some red, yellow, and green indicators to help users understand whether the level of cash is acceptable. Our finished speedometer chart should look like this:
As a speedometer chart doesn't exist as a type in Excel 2016, we will build it with an optical illusion. Our speedometer chart uses half of a pie chart to make the needle and half of a doughnut chart to make the dial. Pies, doughnuts...
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