Excel 2007
How to add elbow to the table
This tip describes how to place into one cell both column and row header known as elbow.
Viewing a worksheet in multiple windows
Sometimes, you may want to view two different parts of a worksheet simultaneously - perhaps to make it
easier to reference a distant cell in a formula. Or you may want to examine more than one sheet in the same
workbook simultaneously.
Removing excess spaces and nonprinting characters
Often, data imported into an Excel worksheet contains excess spaces or strange (often unprintable)
characters. There are two handy functions TRIM and CLEAN to cleanup such data.
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.
Combining several charts into one chart
If you want to combine more than two different data series with common horizontal and different vertical
values, you could not just add another axis to the chart. You need to combine several charts into one chart.
Using two axes in the one chart
Sometimes you want to show several axes in one chart in order to demonstrate each data series with different
formatting and with different axis in one chart.
Create a toolbar button or menu item to run a Macro
If you assigned a key combination to a macro when you recorded it, you can run the macro by pressing that
key combination. If not, you can subsequently assign the macro to the menu item.
Excel 3-D Pie charts
This tip is about how to create a pie chart such as in popular glossy magazines.
How to add deviations into your chart
Sometimes you can give your charts more impressive view by showing deviations of some real process from its
expected flow.
How to add Dividers to the chart
Most reports and presentations contain a lot of boring charts that describe the state before and after some
event, action, etc. However, using simple visual tricks you can shake up the audience and draw an attention
to the essence of your presentation.