Dave is presenting a session titled “Building Excel Chart Worksheet Templates” as part of the Excel Virtually Global conference happening July 21-23, 2020. Learn more here.
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
Half-day virtual sessions for Master of Finance students (July 13, 2020)
Dave will be presenting again to the Queens University Smith School of Business Master of Finance classes on effectively presenting financial information to executives.
Visualizing Net Income from Inflows and Outflows; Issue #443 July 9 2019
Via Twitter I came across an interesting visual created by Nadieh Bremer to show the inflows and outflows that resulted in the Net income for an organization in their annual report. Here is the visual, used with Nadieh’s permission from her article. Here are some of the things I really like about it. It visually…
VBA Programming to work with Excel charts
Excel MVP Jon Peltier’s articles on VBA Excel MVP Chandoo’s VBA course The Mr Excel forum is a good place to ask Excel VBA questions
Add-ins/Web tools for Excel charts
Jon Peltier’s Excel chart add-in at https://peltiertech.com/Utility30/ When you are considering using an add-in for Excel, always remember to check with your IT department to make sure it approved and allowed to be installed on a corporate computer. Also make sure that the charts it creates will be in the current chart format so others can…
Online Excel support
I don’t offer technical support so if you have a question about Excel charting or Excel in general, here are the online forums you can use to seek an answer or ask a question. Microsoft TechCommunity MrExcel forums ExcelGuru.com forums Microsoft Answers forum
Speed slide creation and enjoy the summer; Issue #442 June 25 2019
It is officially summer here in North America and the promise of warmer weather makes us want to get our work done quickly so we can go outside and enjoy the sun. In this article I want to share some tips and resources for speeding up the creation of PowerPoint slides so you can get…
IMA ACE2020 Conference (June 23, 2020, Atlanta, GA)
At the International Management Accountants ACE2020 Conference I will be delivering a half-day workshop titled FinancialViz: Visually communicate financial results and analysis using advanced Excel dataviz techniques. Details are available and registration is open here.
Selecting Dataviz based on message; Issue #441 June 11 2019
In my recent sessions at regional AFP conferences I spoke about the issue of spreadsheets on slides in presentations of financial results and analysis. Business professionals copy these large tables of numbers on to slides because they think you need to have design skills to select the right visual and it takes a lot of…
APQC Webinar May 28, 2020
Presenting a webinar for APQC on selecting visuals for financial dashboards and reports. This webinar is open to all and you can register here.