Excel 2010
Creating a Candlestick Stock chart with volume
Candlestick chart is a style of bar-chart used primarily to describe price movements of a security,
derivative, or currency over time. This chart type is often used in combination with the volume bars chart
for technical analysis of stock and foreign exchange patterns.
Creating a Waterfall chart
The waterfall chart is normally used for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of
intermediate positive or negative values. Usually the initial and the final values are represented by whole
columns, while the intermediate values are denoted by floating columns.
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.
Creating a twin or double thermometer chart
"Thermometer" chart display the percentage of a task that's completed. How to create simple thermometer
chart, see Creating a simple thermometer
chart and Creating a glossy
thermometer chart. But sometimes it will be more informative to display two results in one chart.
This tip is how to create a thermometer chart with two competitive columns.
How to insert cell content to the shape
If you are creating chart or diagram in Excel with shapes, you might need to update the shape text
automatically depending on the value in a particular cell.
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.