For some presentation of the competition will be more informative to see points that missed to achieve the Goal. This tip is about how to create a simple competition chart with residual data.

This tip shows how to create dynamically updated chart labels that depend on the value of the cells.

This tip shows how to create a simple competition chart using a bar 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.

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.

For some workbooks with a large number of sheets or highlighting some important data, it is necessary to create hyperlinks to another cell in the same spreadsheet or workbook.

Unfortunately, when you try to paste a series of cells with blank cells, the Paste special with Skip blanks option doesn't seem to work.

Here's a quick way to unmerge all merged cells in a worksheet:

This tip will help you select all cells in the worksheet in one click.

When Excel is installed, the default chart is a 2-D Column chart, but you can easily change the default chart type.