Charts and Graphs: Microsoft Excel 2010

✍ Scribed by Bill Jelen

• Publisher: Que Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 66
• Series: MrExcel Library
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using Excel 2010, it's possible to create breathtaking charts, graphs, and other data visualizations - and communicate even the most complex data more effectively than ever before. In Charts and Graphs, one of the world's leading Excel experts show exactly how to make the most of Excel 2010's unprecedented visual features. Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") explains exactly when and how to use each type of Excel chart, then walks through creating superb visuals and customizing them with themes, colors, and effects. Jelen shows how to craft charts that illuminate trends, differences, and relationships; how to create stock analysis charts; how to use Excel's flexible PivotCharts; and even how to present data on maps with Microsoft MapPoint. You will discover how to make the most of Excel 2010's new Sparklines and other in-cell visualizations; how to incorporate additional images and shapes with SmartArt; how to export charts for use outside of Excel; and how to generate dynamic, customized charts automatically with Excel VBA. There's even a full chapter on assessing the truth of charts created in Excel - and recognizing when someone's trying to lie to you! This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series.

 

Everything Excel users need to know to communicate visually - from trend analysis to stock charting, geographical mapping to Excel 2010's new In-Cell Data Bars and Sparklines

From basic through leading-edge techniques - including the automatic generation of custom charts with VBA

Part of the brand-new MrExcel Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 3
Choosing the Right Chart Type......Page 11
Using Excel as Your Charting Canvas......Page 12
Topics Covered in This Book......Page 13
Special Elements in This Book......Page 14
Line Charts for Time Series Beyond 12 Periods......Page 16
Bar Charts for Series with Long Category Labels......Page 18
Understanding Date-Based Axis Versus Category-Based Axis in Trend Charts......Page 19
Converting Text Dates to Dates......Page 22
Using Dates Before 1900......Page 28
Using a Workaround to Display a Time-Scale Axis......Page 33
Communicate Effectively with Charts......Page 36
Using a Long, Meaningful Title to Explain Your Point......Page 37
Highlighting One Column......Page 40
Highlighting a Section of Chart by Adding a Second Series......Page 42
Changing Line Type Midstream......Page 44
Adding an Automatic Trendline to a Chart......Page 46
Showing a Trend of Monthly Sales and Year-to-Date Sales......Page 47
Using a Stacked Column Chart to Compare Current Sales to Prior-Year Sales......Page 49
Next Steps......Page 51
B......Page 52
C......Page 53
E......Page 56
F......Page 57
I......Page 58
M......Page 59
P......Page 60
R......Page 61
S......Page 62
T......Page 63
V......Page 64
X......Page 65
Z......Page 66