If you want other users to open your Zebra BI reports directly in MS Excel with fully updatable charts, then they require either a full Zebra BI license or a Zebra BI Dynamic Viewer license.
The Zebra BI Dynamic Viewer is a lighter version of Zebra BI that doesn’t include the design options (insert charts, scale, etc.):
If you want to share your Zebra BI reports or dashboards with other users who don’t have Zebra BI installed, one of the options you have is to send them a static Excel workbook.
A static Excel workbook is an Excel file that looks exactly like the original file, except that the Zebra BI charts are not dynamic (they will not change if their source data changes).
This means that the user can open the file without any problems (they won’t receive a warning), they only won’t be able to update the charts. If they change the values in Excel, Zebra BI charts will not change.
In fact, you can even convert the whole workbook into a fixed Excel snapshot where all the formulas, Pivot tables, and other interactive features are converted to fixed values.
To create a static Excel workbook click on the arrow below ‘Export’ in your Zebra BI ribbon and choose ‘Excel Workbook (static)‘:
The most robust and secure way to ensure all users will be able to view the documents that you sent them is to use PDF documents. They will look the same on all operating systems, when printed out and even on mobile devices. They are also read-only by default.
That’s why we made it incredibly simple for you to export your Zebra BI reports from Excel to PDF. You can actually create a comprehensive PDF report with multiple pages in one single action directly from Zebra BI.
Zebra BI allows you to have PowerPoint presentations that will be automatically updated when you apply changes to the data origin (i.e. your Excel-file). This saves a lot of time, especially when you have to create the same standardized reports for different time periods (monthly, quarterly, etc.). Continue reading if you want to find out more:
When creating tables and charts in Excel, you will most likely want to share your insights with your peers. The standard tool for presenting your findings is PowerPoint. That’s why we made it incredibly simple for you to export your reports from Excel to PowerPoint. If you want, your data will even be updated automatically!
With Zebra BI full-screen “presentation” mode exporting your reports to PowerPoint is a thing of the past. Now you don’t have to leave your Excel – not even for presentations.
Zebra BI offers you a wide variety of ways to share your awesome visuals, reports, dashboards and presentations with other people.
You can create PowerPoint slides, both static pictures and also linked/updatable slides. You can easily publish multiple page PDF documents directly from Zebra BI. You can export static Excel workbooks for Excel users without Zebra BI. You can create dynamic and fully interactive Excel dashboards and share them with other Zebra BI users.
In case you need fully interactive but also 100% web-based reporting, then please try out our Zebra BI visuals for Power BI.
Hopefully, this is enough for your needs! 😉 Let’s explore your options in more detail.
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