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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

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SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Xcelsius 2008 was recently included in SAP’s BusinessObjects 4.0 family, rebranding “Xcelsius Enterprise” as “SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0”. With features like flexible design and what-if scenarios, the powerful dashboarding software allows enterprises to make business decisions at a glance, and this book allows you to go far beyond the basics of these techniques. This cookbook full of practical and applicable recipes will enable you to use the full latest capabilities of Dashboard Design to visually transform your business data. A wide range of recipes will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to perform tasks like configuring charts, creating drill- downs, making component colors dynamic, using alerts in maps, building pop-up screens, setting up What-If scenarios, and many more.The recipes begin by covering best practices for using the Dashboard Design spreadsheet, the data-model, and the connection with the components on the canvas, later moving on to some from-the-trenches tricks for using Excel within Dashboard Design. The book then guides you through the exploration of various data visualization components and dashboard interactivity, as well as offering recipes on using alerts, dashboard connectivity, and making the most of the aesthetics of the dashboard. Finally, the recipes conclude by considering the most important add-ons available for Dashboard Design and enabling you to perform relevant and useful tasks straight away.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Selecting all worksheet cells with one click


With a click of the mouse button, we can select everything on a worksheet.

How to do it...

If you want to select an entire worksheet without having to drag your mouse to select everything, you can just click on the half triangle on the top left corner of the worksheet.

How it works...

Clicking on the half triangle button will allow you to select the entire worksheet with just one click. Here are some reasons why we would want to select an entire worksheet:

  • With an entire worksheet selected, you can easily apply formatting or change attributes to all cells.

  • You can copy the selection from one workbook and paste it onto a worksheet from another workbook. A common use would be copying data elements from an external spreadsheet and pasting it onto the internal Dashboard Design spreadsheet.

  • You can easily perform row height or column width formatting that will apply to all rows or columns in that spreadsheet.

There's more...

Another way of selecting everything on a worksheet is using the Ctrl+A shortcut.