How-to Easily Create a Step Chart in Excel

You might be asking yourself, “What is a Step Chart?” You have probably seen one, but didn’t know that it is called a step chart. Here...

How-to Make an Excel Bullet Chart

Executives and managers love to see gauge charts in their Excel Dashboards.  However, gauge charts may confuse or mislead the dashboard readers.  For instance,...

Friday Challenge Answer – Using Excel Slicers to Create Dynamic Charts

A big thanks to Don for submitting the first response to last week’s Friday Challenge.   You can check out the challenge here: Friday Challenge – Excel...

Excel 2013 Chart Bug

I think I found a bug in Microsoft Excel 2013.  It is not a major bug, but annoying like most bugs. Do you see the...

How-to Make a Cool Looking 3-D Sales Funnel or 3D Sales Pipeline Chart in...

Some times these types of charts are called funnel charts or some times they are called pipeline charts.  Regardless of what you call them,...

How-to Graph Three Sets of Data Criteria in an Excel Clustered Column Chart

Here is a very simple solution to a common Excel Charting question when a user wants to graph “Three sets of data criteria on...

New Feature Excel Flash Fill Use it for Quick Data Retrieval and Formatting

Excel Flash Fill Every time a new version of Excel is released there are always new features that are hard to find and learn for those...

Touch vs Mouse Mode in Excel

With all the new affordable touch screen computers out there, you may have purchased one.  However, if you are like me, you may have...