As a reader of ExcelZone, you are likely to have better-than-average Excel skills when it comes to manipulating spreadsheet data. But are your charts up to scratch?
One of the many helpful emails dispatched in our direction by Microsoft pointed to a handy page offering advice on how to add eye-catching formatting to your charts.
The suggestions include using colours, textures and gradient fills to differentiate bar charts and to offset the columns to create a "layered" effect for charts. Advice is also offered on adjusting axis scales, and using different text treatments and number formats.
Further links on the page point to lessons on changing the fills, colours and line styles. Similar tutorial material is available for users of the latest version of Excel on the Excel 2007 charting help page
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