Excel

Here is the scenario that thrills Excel data analysts and sends chills down most employee’s spines: Thursday afternoon: Your department sent out an Excel spreadsheet...

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...

Last week we presented a chart challenge to see how you represent Food Donation data.   Don said that we should keep it simple and sent...

Today the ExcelDashboardTemplate.com Friday Challenge is up to you and your wildest imagination. An Excel chart newbie posted this data set and wasn’t sure the...

In a recent issue of USA Today, the following infographic was posted on the U.S. women’s national soccer team player appearances.  I liked it...

Have you ever created a lot of charts in an Excel Worksheet and drove yourself crazy trying to line the charts up? Notice how the...

A fan of the blog asked a question about this post: Stop Excel From Overlapping the Columns When Moving a Data Series to the Second...

Our good friend Pete sent me his take on the Recent Bullet Chart posting.  I was dumb founded on how he created it.  In...

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

Excel 2013 has some cool features. If you were not aware, here is an awesome Chart Data Label option that you now have when...