Excel: Mini Dashboard with One Function

Key insights

• Agent Mode: A new AI feature that builds complete mini dashboards from a single natural-language prompt. It plans steps, writes formulas, creates pivot tables, inserts charts, and adds slicers automatically.
  
• Excel Labs: The add-in that delivers Agent Mode. Install the add-in, open the Excel Labs pane, choose Agent Mode, and you can start using prompts without manual chart setup.
  
• Prompt-driven generation: Type a clear request like “Show sales by region and month,” and the agent executes the plan for you. The agent converts your instruction into tables, formulas, and interactive elements.
  
• Key benefits: Create dashboards with one command, save hours of work, reduce manual errors, and let nontechnical users explore data with built-in interactivity such as slicers and timelines.
  
• Workflow basics: Prepare clean data and convert it to an Excel Table, enable Agent Mode, enter a concise prompt, then review and refine the generated dashboard and formulas.
  
• REPT function: Use REPT to build in-cell visuals like bar charts, progress bars, and star ratings by repeating characters. Combine it with simple formulas and conditional formatting to show compact, chart-free visuals inside cells.
  

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