How-to Add Clean Breaks or Cliff Edges to an Excel Area Chart A stacked area chart displays an area of points above other data points and connects them to the next category.  However, there is no...

Easily Add Task Information to Excel 2016 Gantt Charts Excel 2013 and Excel 2016 make this need so much easier. Thanks Excel! I recently posted a request from a fan that asked how to add task...

How-to Add Resource Names to Excel Gantt Chart Tasks I recently received a request from a fan that asked how he could add resource names to Excel Gantt Chart that he had created.  The technique I...

Excel Formula Formatting Quick Tip Learn the best Excel Formula Formatting technique so that you can quickly edit them in the future! You will use these simple techniques for all of your Excel...

Mean Tweets I like to publish what I think are helpful videos and tutorials on my site.  My hope is that they are useful and have good content and quality. However, some of my viewers and readers have...

Select and Align Charts for an Excel Dashboard Creating dashboards can take a lot of time.  With this simple technique that I just learned, you can quickly select and align charts for your final Excel...

Chart Conditional Labels and Callouts Learn how to make the simple and easy these Excel Chart Label Callouts: In my most recent article, I described how Excel is taking user feedback for changes to...

Great Ideas Wanted Have you heard of Excel’s Suggestion Box? I just ran across this awesome user community feedback tool that Microsoft is using to gather your top needs and wants for the next...

Selecting Ranges in Excel Have you ever had an issue using your mouse to select a large set of data in your Excel spreadsheet?  Have you ever had similar issues using your mouse to select...

Stacked and Unstacked Column Chart in Excel Excel is awesome because, even when a certain chart type is not a standard option, there may be a way that you can create the type of chart that you really...

Who are you? Hello to all of my Microsoft Excel friends and family out there.  I wanted to write a post so you can get to know more about me.  I also hope to get to know you well, so please let me...

Challenge – Chart This Data in Excel – My Answer A few Fridays ago, I posted this challenge: Link here: friday-challenge-chart-this-data-in-excel Where I asked you to send in your sample charts...