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How to Make Your Excel Line Chart Look Better
The chart on the bottom is Excel’s default formatting while the chart on the top has been heavily updated. Looking at both charts together, most people would agree that the chart on the top looks...
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How to Add Total Data Labels to the Excel Stacked Bar Chart
For stacked bar charts, Excel 2010 allows you to add data labels only to the individual components of the stacked bar chart. The basic chart function does not allow you to add a total data label that...
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How to Make Your Excel Bar Chart Look Better
One of the most important skills in Visual Design is being able to improve the formatting of your Excel charts. Even if your displaying the exact same data set, the formatting of a chart can make a...
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How to Use Excel Custom Number Formatting
Because it’s buried deep in the cell formatting menu and has very little documentation, Excel’s custom number formatting is probably its most underutilized feature. Understanding and mastering this...
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How to Paste Excel Chart Formatting
Pasting chart formats is an Excel function that’s somewhat un-intuitive to find and therefore underutilized. One of the main reasons that people don’t bother improving the formatting of their charts...
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Visual Design is a concept that many people don’t think about when using Excel. However, given how much Excel’s visual display capabilities have improved over the years, the concept is becoming more...
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Excel Visual Design Tricks
I’ve emphasized before that the key behind Visual Design is that every formatting decision you make should have a purpose behind it. In the following post, I plan to demonstrate more of the visual...
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How to Build an Excel Model: Step by Step
The following post is the third in a series of posts about Excel Model Building. To review the previous posts on this topic, please click through the links below: Click here for Part 1 of this post,...
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Excel Template: Histogram Builder with Adjustable Bin Sizes
If you work in consulting or some other profession that requires you to analyze data, sooner or later, you’ll need to build a histogram. This is because the histograms is one of the most effective...
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