Reporting Aesthetically In Excel
Published 2/2026
Created by Dimple Saini, Chartered Accountant, FPAC
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 25 Lectures ( 56m ) | Size: 1.14 GB
✓ Move beyond default formatting habits by applying a deliberate, structured approach that improves readability and visual clarity
✓ Convert raw, cluttered worksheets into polished, boardroom-ready reports that feel credible, confident, and decision-driven.
✓ Use formatting strategically to create hierarchy, guiding attention through structure, emphasis, and meaning.
✓ Develop a distinctive Excel reporting style that reflects clarity and elegance and differentiates you as a finance professional.
Requirements
● A basic working knowledge of Excel . No advanced formulas, Power Query, macros, or VBA required .
● A willingness to move beyond default formatting habits and adopt a more intentional, design-led approach to reporting.
Description
Most spreadsheets do not fail because the numbers are wrong. They fail because the layout creates friction. Leaders cannot scan quickly, key messages get missed, and credibility drops.
This course teaches a practical, repeatable system to format Excel reports that feel boardroom ready. You will learn how to set up a clean canvas, build visual hierarchy, use typography and number formats for readability, declutter noise, apply colour with intent, design navigation, and run a final professionalism check before you share.
Every lesson is designed to be applied immediately to real FP&A and finance workbooks, including reporting packs, variance analysis, and dashboards. You will see how small choices like column widths, alignment, indentation, currency symbols, and consistent casing can dramatically change how a report is read. You will also learn how to use bold, borders, and colour as visual signals, so attention goes exactly where the insight is, without making the sheet feel noisy.
We will cover usability habits that experienced analysts rely on, such as freeze panes, table of contents, clean sheet naming, and setting the opening view, so your workbook feels effortless to navigate. Finally, you will learn the finishing discipline that separates average files from trusted ones, print preview checks, pagination, spell check, and error proofing.
By the end of the course, you will have a formatting playbook and checklist you can reuse across every monthly close, forecast cycle, and leadership review.
If you want your spreadsheets to be clearer, faster to consume, and easier to trust, this course is for you.
Who this course is for
■ This course is for professionals who already use Excel and want their reports to reflect clarity, intention, and credibility, not default formatting. It is particularly well suited for
■ Finance, FP&A, and business analysts who produce recurring reports, summaries, or management packs in excel.
■ Professionals who share spreadsheets with managers, leadership teams, or senior stakeholders
■ Excel users who want to move beyond cosmetic formatting and design reports with structure, hierarchy, and purpose
■ Anyone who believes that strong analysis deserves equally strong presentation and wants their work to stand out for the right reasons
Reporting Aesthetically In Excel
