Chart in Excel 2010
Adding Up/Down Bars to a line chart
If you have a line chart with two different data series, you might want to compare those series at each
point along the horizontal axis. There are two different options for this, available in two locations along
the Layout tab of the ribbon.
Using Arrows in a Chart
Expressiveness of business graphics sometimes determines the success or failure of the presentation and you
can achieve better perception of the audience by using in charts intuitively obvious representation of data
by arrows.
Creating picture charts
Excel makes it easy to incorporate a pattern, texture, or graphic file for elements in your chart. E.g., you
can create funny burger sales chart for your colleagues.
Glossy Gantt chart with a vertical line
If you need to create a simple Gantt chart, see Creating a Gantt chart or Gantt chart with progress. To add events to
your Gantt chart, see Progress Gantt chart
with events. This tip will help you to extend those charts by a vertical line that shows the current
date.
Progress Gantt chart with events
Gantt chart is a pervasive project management tool intended to reveal task management problems. But
you can enrich it with additional information like project milestones, presentation dates and similar
events.
Gantt chart with progress or progress Gantt chart
Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that is often used in project management applications.
How to add a vertical line to the chart
This tip is about how to add a vertical line in your chart. E.g., this will be useful to show data and
highlight a current date.
How to add a vertical line to the scatter chart
This tip is about how to add a vertical line in your chart. E.g., this will be useful to show data and
highlight a current date.
Creating a Gantt chart
A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that is often used in project management applications
like Microsoft Project.
Trendlines and Moving Average in Excel
When you're plotting data over time, you may want to plot a trend line that describes the data. A trend line
points out general trends in your data.