As the fastest growing dashboarding solutions in the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to change the contents of an Excel spreadsheet into an ordinary, interesting interactive Flash-based instruction dashboard Offers step-by-step on a variety of functions that are offered so that readers Xcelsius can complete mini-dashboards increasing complexity with each chapter addresses how to prepare Excel spreadsheets for use with Xcelsius dashboards and then using the basic components of Xcelsius (charts, buttons, labels) Shows ways to add advanced functionality to dashboards (gauges, sliders, maps ) and create interactive business calculators with Xcelsius Discusses integrating Xcelsius reports into PowerPoint slides, Web pages, and e-mail