With Dashboard Design 2008, we are able to create tables that look just like a table in an Excel spreadsheet. Unfortunately, our everyday tables look quite bland. If we start off with a default spreadsheet table, it will look kind of like this:
It looks okay, but with the help of some Dashboard Design objects, we can spice it up to look much more attractive.
Prepare the data on your Excel spreadsheet and set up a table like in the previous image.
Select the first Background object from the Art and Backgrounds tab from the Category window.
Place the background so that it is under the table.
Select the Rectangle object from the Art and Backgrounds tab and place it under the body of the table to give it a background color.
Select the Rectangle object from the Art and Backgrounds tab and place it on top of the header and give it a linearly gradient background color. This will be the background for the table title.
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