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  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.
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  A quick way to duplicate all of the custom chart formatting

  Creation of a large number of visually consistent charts to represent different data is a time consuming and error prone task, unless you know how to copy formatting between charts.
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  How to change the default colors that Excel uses for chart series

  Every workbook uses a palette of 56 colors, but you can change palette for the current workbook or even change the default colors for new workbooks.
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  How to fix the chart data

  You can unlink a chart from its data ranges and produce a static chart that remains unaffected by later changes in the data.
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  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.
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  Creating a gauge chart

  This chart resembles a speedometer gauge and displays a value between 0 and 100%.
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  Creating a Gantt chart

  A Gantt chart is a horizontal bar chart that is often used in project management applications.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Adding a trend line

  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.