Excel 2016
Creating a rainbow thermometer chart
Creating a thermometer chart, you are not limited to a single color bar. Instead, you can specify different
colors for different value intervals. This tip shows you how to create a rainbow thermometer chart. E.g.,
working on some goal, you can specify risk zones for it: red zone - the risk of the fail is high, yellow zone -
success/fail is unknown, green zone - success is not far enough.
Creating a semaphore thermometer chart
Data visualization is a key cognitive tool that enables you to attract more attention to your statements.
E.g., you can direct your organization's attention to insufficiently developed goals and praise them for
successfully performed goals. This tip shows you how to update thermometer char colors automatically
according to the current process status.
The best way to organize your workbook using hyperlinks
For some workbooks with a large number of sheets or to highlighting some important data, it is necessary to
create hyperlinks to another cell in the same spreadsheet.
Copy and paste only nonblank cells
Unfortunately, when you try to paste a series of cells with blank cells, Paste special with Skip
blanks option doesn't seem to work.
Unmerging all merged cells
Here's a quick way to unmerge all merged cells in a worksheet:
Quick way to select all cells
This tip will help you to select all cells in the worksheet in one click.
How to turn on/off the Quick Analysis feature
When you select a range of data, Excel displays a Quick Analysis button in the lower-right corner of
the range. But this option can be turned off.
How to change default chart
When Excel is installed, the default chart is a 2-D Column chart, but you can easily change the default chart
type.
Displaying conditional colors in a column chart
To emphasize differences between data in the chart it will be interesting to create a column chart in which
the color of each column depends on the value displayed.
Simple combination chart
Sometimes you want to show a single chart that consists of series that use different chart types.