Use Excel 2013’s radically revamped charting and graphing tools to communicate more clearly, powerfully, and quickly... so you drive your message home, and get the decisions and actions you’re looking for! This book reveals data visualization techniques you won’t find anywhere else and shows you how to use Excel 2013 to create designer-quality charts and graphs that stand out from the crowd. It will help you make the most of new features ranging from Power View to Recommended Charts, and instantly share your insights with anyone, anywhere–even on the Web and social networks. Learning advanced Excel techniques has never been easier. You’ll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world examples and case studies, and more than a dozen YouTube videos, straight from MrExcel! • Create stunning data visualizations instantly with Excel 2013’s new Recommended Charts • Use charts to instantly reveal trends, differences, and relationships • Map your data with Excel 2013, MapPoint, and the new GeoFlow add-in • Quickly generate combo charts that once required complex, frustrating procedures • Use sparklines to imbue worksheets with more context and insight • Highlight and clarify the meaning of data with DataBars, color scales, icon sets, and other conditional formatting tools • Post charts to Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, directly from Excel • Build stock charts that help you make smarter investments • Solve “non-standard” problems such as noncontiguous data or custom data sequences • Generate new charts automatically with Excel VBA • Uncover visual tricks that people use to lie with Excel About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will: • Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more • Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems • Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have • Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

Discover how to work with charts and graphs in Excel, and visualize your data in a new way.

Visualize data and get new insights into your information with Excel's charts and graphs. Learn how to create and modify charts, graphs, tables, and SmartArt to enhance your spreadsheets or other Office documents. This course covers all of the essential features needed to get up and running with these valuable Excel tools.

Laminated quick reference card showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use charts/graphs and Sparklines features of Microsoft Office Excel 2013.The following topics are covered:Charts: Inserting a Chart, Inserting a Recommended Chart, Understanding Chart Types, Charting Non-Adjacent Data, Creating a Chart Using the Default Chart Type, Using Chart Buttons, Resizing a Chart in the Worksheet, Selecting Chart Objects, Changing Chart Type, Adding/Removing a Data Series, Adding and Adjusting Axis and Chart TItles, Switching Rows and Columns, Using Tables as a Data Source, Adjusting Scale, Creating a Chart with Two Scales, Adjusting the Legend, Using Gridlines, Adding Explanatory Text, Adding Visuals, Adding and Adjusting Data Labels, Exploding a Piece of a Pie Chart, Using Styles and Layouts, Moving a Chart to Another Worksheet, Adding a Projection or Trendline to a Data Series, Handling Hidden and Empty Cells in a Chart, Changing the Default Chart Type, Creating a Custom Chart Template, Applying a Custom Chart Type.Sparklines: Creating a Sparkline, Grouping Sparklines, Changing Sparkline Type, Removing Sparklines, Customizing Sparklines with Text and Markers, Changing Marker Color, Change Sparklines Color and Weight, Customizing Axis Settings, Handling Hidden and Empty Cells in Sparklines.

Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to: Understand the importance of context and audience Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data—Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Purpose of book: Let's do not sit on the desk due to making a nice graphs for their reports, presentation, meeting materials, etc. Let’s get rid of any stress from making nice Excel charts! Benefits: - You are able to create your own unique Excel charts. - You can make yourself like a superstar with beautiful & amazing charts in your presentations. - You can walk away from the same Excel charts which everybody can create. - Without knowing these techniques, it is quite difficult to create these charts. How to use: - Are you crazy? No need to read whole book. Just jump into the chart you like to make. - No need to buy the newest Microsoft office package. • Excel 2013, Excel 2016, 2019, Excel 365 are suitable for this book (Do NOT fit with Excel 2010 or older versions). Contents: This book contains 14 different methods to create unique Excel charts with Example Charts Excel file (25 worksheets).

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2002 have become almost as commonplace on today's personal computers as word processors and games doesn't mean that they're either well understood or well used. If you're one of the many folks who has Office XP on your computer but doesn't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet, this means that Excel 2002 is just sitting there taking up a lot of space. Well, it's high time to change all that. One look at the Excel 2002 screen (with all its boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize how much stuff is going on there. Excel 2002 For Dummies will help you make some sense out of the rash of icons, buttons, and boxes that you're going to be facing day after day. And when you ready to go beyond spreadsheet basics, this guide will also introduce you to Conjuring up charts Inserting graphics Designing a database Converting spreadsheets into Web pages Most of all, Excel 2002 For Dummies covers the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In this book, you'll find all the information that you need to keep your head above water as you accomplish the everyday tasks that people do with Excel. This down-to-earth guide covers all these topics and more: Creating a spreadsheet from scratch Document recovery Formatting fundamentals Making corrections (and how to undo them) Retrieving data from your spreadsheets Protecting your documents Demystifying formulas Now, even if your job doesn't involve creating worksheets with a lot of fancy financial calculations or lah-dee-dah charts, you probably have plenty of things for which you could and should be using Excel. For instance, you may have to keep lists of information or maybe even put together tables of information for your job. Excel is a great list keeper and one heck of a table maker. You can use Excel anytime you need to keep track of products that you sell, clients who you service, employees who you oversee, or you name it.