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Responding to A Free Offer to Help Excel Users Improve Your Job Prospects, a reader sent me a workbook this morning. I’m glad he sent it, even though it contains no dashboards. This is because it illustrates many bad practices I’ve seen in Excel reports over the years.

I’ll call my visitor Randy.

Assuming that he created the workbook himself, Randy certainly seems to know his profession. And he did several things in his workbook that I like. But on balance, he’s made many common design mistakes that overshadow his professional skills. [click to continue...]

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