Chart in Excel 2003
How to hide points on the chart axis
Sometimes you need to omit some points of the chart axis, e.g., the zero point. This tip will show you how
to hide certain points on the chart axis using custom label format.
Waterfall chart using Error bars
The waterfall chart is normally used for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of
intermediate positive or negative values. As we have shown
Creating a Waterfall chart it can be created
using a combination of Excel Bar charts. This tip will show you how streamline this process using
Error Bar chart. The waterfall chart is normally used for understanding how an initial value is
affected by a series of intermediate positive or negative values.
Creating a Candlestick Stock chart
Candlestick chart is a style of bar-chart used primarily to describe price movements of a security,
derivative, or currency over time. It is a combination of a line-chart and a bar-chart, in that each bar
represents the range of price movement over a given time interval. It is most often used in technical
analysis of equity and currency price patterns.
Conditional formatting for chart axes
Another powerful trick to attain the attention of the audience and improve the effect of your presentation
is to use axis label formatting customized for the specific value ranges.
Creating a simple thermometer chart
You're probably familiar with a "thermometer" type display that shows the percentage of a task that's
completed. It's very easy to create such a display in Excel.
Adding error bars
For certain chart types, you can add error bars to your chart. Error bars often are used to indicate 'plus
or minus' information that reflects uncertainty in the data.
Creating automatically extended plot ranges
If you often need to adjust your data ranges so that your charts plot an updated data range, you may be
interested in a trick that forces Excel to update the chart's data range whenever you add new data to your
worksheet.
Excel 3-D Pie charts
This tip is about how to create a pie chart such as in popular glossy magazines.
How to create non-resizable font in charts
When you scale Excel chart, the font of text items is scaled proportionally to the size of the chart.
Unfortunately this powerful feature is a big source of a headache. Scaled fonts break formatting
consistency, when those charts are being inserted into the Word document or PowerPoint presentation.
Fortunately you can turn off auto-scaling for the particular chart item or disable it at all.
Creating Pie of Pie and Bar of Pie charts
If you have several parts of something whole, you can demonstrate each item in one pie chart. But, when
several parts each amount to less than 10 percent of the pie, it becomes hard to distinguish the slices.