How-to Center Excel Clustered Chart Columns Over Horizontal Category Labels
When you have several series
in one chart and only one of those series appear per Horizontal Label Category, you probably want to center the...
How-to Make Longer Legend Color Bars in an Excel Chart Video Tutorial
Most Excel 2D Column Charts have small color boxes in the legend to point you to the right series in the graph. However, this...
How-to Create an Excel Dashboard Column Chart with 2 Axis Groupings
Recently I saw this in the MrExcel Forums. The title “Weird Charts with 3 Axis” intrigued me.
I determined that they were looking to put...
How-to Show Decades and Highlight a Year in the Horizontal Axis
Recently in an Excel Forum, a user had data similar to this format:
Here is what he wanted to do:
How do I set the Horizontal...
Friday Challenge Answers: Year over Year Chart Comparisons
Thanks for the submissions for the Friday Challenge.
You can get the sample data and chart request here: friday-challenge-help-new-to-excel-yoy-comparisons
Here are some other submissions:
A) In the...
How-to Make an Excel Single Image Goal Chart
Recently, a healthcare company employee contacted me about a chart he wanted to create. The company that he works for is trying to save...
How-to Create a Combo Line and Column Pivot Chart
Some Excel users can be confused when it comes to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. I recently saw a post asking for this help:
"Please...
How-to Visualize 17000 Data Points of Upload and Download Times
In the last Friday Challenge, I presented you with 17,000+ data points representing 2 days of network data usage.
With so many data points, it...
How-to Make Conditional Label Values in an Excel Stacked Column Chart
Recently I was thinking that sometimes when you make a Stacked Column Chart in your Excel Dashboard, you may want to hide some of...
How-to Fix an Excel 3D Chart so that it Matches the Gridlines
While working for a company that paid bonuses, the Financial and Human Resources team sent out a chart showing how close we are to...
