I’ll implement your recommendations. Looks like my weekend will be spent experimenting with colour and layout.

Cheers,

Bob

I’ve used various projectors while giving classes, and I’ve only ever used one that did justice to what I was displaying. Most of them have a smaller effective size, and the colors are awful.

The same way that I suggest people use different views (i.e., different worksheets) for printed and for on-screen reports, you should use a separate sheet for your projected reports. Figure out the size you can get away with, and try to limit yourself to B&W and maybe two or three colors. They won’t be the colors you’d use on screen, either. You’ll have to experiment to find a few distinct colors which aren’t completely ugly.

Happy New Year.

I have designed a project status dashboard in Excel that is modelled (albeit poorly) on the winning Airlines Sparkline sample that Fabrice Rimlinger includes in his add in and that is used by the commercial product.

I’ve made the dasboard as dense as possible, but now I also need to project the status onto display via projector on the laptop.

What is good for a single user on a 1024 x 768 laptop screen is now useless when projected. Have you seen any articles about project dashboards used in presentations?

I’ve had to add more colour than I would like and hide some of the lower information content columns to make it useable.

Do you have any suggestions?

Cheers,

Bob