Dashboards & Reports

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Cross-Tabs and Combined Survey Analysis in Reporting

A single question tells you what people answered. A cross-tab tells you who answered it differently. Here's how cross-tabs work in Reporting, and how Combined Survey extends the same idea across more than one survey.

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Sharing a Report Publicly

Not everyone you need to show a report to has an Opionate account. Here's how public report links work - what's visible, how to gate access with a password or login, and how to turn access off again.

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Choosing the Right Widget for Your Report

Reporting offers more chart types than any one report needs. Here's a practical guide to which widget fits which question, and which ones only make sense for specific section types.

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Building Your First Report

Your survey has responses coming in - now what? Reporting turns raw answers into charts, cross-tabs, and a presentation-ready deck without leaving Opionate. Here's how to build your first report from scratch.

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Why Waterfall, Treemap, Polar Area, and Lollipop Charts Export as Images, Not Editable Objects

Most chart types export to PowerPoint as fully editable objects. Four don't - and it's not an Opionate limitation. Here's exactly why, and what it means for how you build a report you plan to export.

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Organizing Multiple Reports for the Same Survey

There's no limit on how many reports you can build for one survey - which is useful, but only if you keep them organized enough to find the right one later. Here's a practical approach.

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Designing a Report for a Non-Technical Audience

A report built for a research team and a report built for an executive who's never opened a cross-tab need different design choices. Here's how to build the second kind well.

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Common Report Mistakes to Avoid

A handful of mistakes show up again and again in survey reports - not tool problems, but interpretation and presentation choices that quietly undermine trust in an otherwise solid finding.

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Choosing Between a Live Report Link and a PowerPoint Export

Two ways to hand someone your results, built for genuinely different situations. Here's how to pick between sharing a live link and exporting a frozen deck.

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Building a Report for a Recurring Tracking Study

A report built for a one-off survey and a report built to track a metric wave over wave need different design choices. Here's how to set one up for the long haul.

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Exporting Your Report to PowerPoint

Most research tools export a report as a picture of a chart. Opionate exports native, editable PowerPoint - real chart objects and text boxes you can still tweak after the fact. Here's how the export works and what you get.

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Getting a Dashboard Presentation-Ready: What PowerPoint Export Does and Doesn't Handle (2026)

Exporting a dashboard straight to PowerPoint saves the hours normally lost to rebuilding every chart by hand - as long as you know which charts come out as fully editable objects and which come out as flat images, and design with that distinction in mind from the start rather than discovering it after the export is already in front of a client. This guide covers what actually happens during export, and how to structure a dashboard so the exported version needs the least possible cleanup.