FREE COUPON - Excel Charts: New Udemy Course: Learn everything about Charts with Microsoft Excel 2013

Excel: Master Excel and convert Data into powerful Charts

Learn Microsoft Excel's charting tools and data visualization

techniques and create Professional Dynamic Excel Charts

First of all Thank you

For taking my course!

And don’t forget:

I answer all student's

questions

I’ll update the course and add

new material as often as I

could.

Honest reviews are always

greatly appreciated

SECTION 1 : Welcome to Excel Charts

What is a chart? A chart is a visual representation of numeric values.

Charts offers you at-a-glance views that allows you to specify relationships

between data values.

With a chart you can easily spot trends and patterns

We will learn some of the most useful chart types

We will learn the most important elements of a chart like:

Chart and plot area

Special elements of 3D charts

Legends and Gridlines

Getting to Know the Elements and Types of a Chart

SECTION 2 : The Basics of an Excel Chart

How can we choose the right type of chart?

Which type of chart is ideal for specific type of data?

The feature of Live Preview

How to select the right Chart for your Data?


Using the keyboard and different methods to create a quick chart

Quick Analysis tool

The new feature of Excel 2013: Recommended Charts

Select Data and Create a Chart with various ways


Although a chart floats above your worksheet data, it may reposition itself automatically whenever you resize a row or column beneath it.

You can prevent these random changes by adjusting the chart's properties.

You can also use Excel's worksheet protection feature to prevent others from accidentally moving the chart to another part of the document.

Prevent a Chart from Moving and Sizing with Cells on the Worksheet

SECTION 3 : Modifying our chart visually

Three (3) ways to resize a chart

Different ways to move a chart

Three ways to resize a Chart and move it to any location


How to change a default chart

The secrets of chart templates

Choosing a Chart Type, Chart Templates and Live Preview


The right way for filling gaps

Three (3) methods to solve the problem of empty cells

How to link data with the graph and how to fill the gaps of a chart


How to change colors?

What are Themes?

Using Design Tab to change colors

Paintbrush-Chart style tool

Change the Layout or Style of a Chart


Quick Layout feature

Orientation of a chart

Add Chart Elements button

Select Layouts and learn to modify all the elements of a chart

SECTION 4 : Options and Elements of a chart

Different ways to add chart titles

Modifying a title

Chart Titles and how to link them with a cell


Dynamic labels in Excel are labels that change according to the data you're viewing. We can interactively change the labeling of data.

A common use for dynamic labels is labeling interactive charts.

How to use dynamic labels and titles and make your chart interactive


Axes and their usefulness in a chart

Change the scaling of an axis

Axis and hours

Create a secondary axis

Learn Chart Axes in depth and add a Secondary Axis


What are Drop lines?

Statistical trendlines

Moving averages

Error bars

How to use Statistics with Line Chart and choosing the best trendline


Data labels

Explain Format Data Labels dialog box

All about gridlines

Displaying Data - Custom Axis Labels and Gridlines


Two (2) basic ways to add new data in chart

Using combo charts

Updating and adding new data in Chart with keyboard and mouse

SECTION 5 : Chart’s data source - Updating Charts

How to link our data properly

Link a legend

Add new Data to an existing Chart, from different worksheets

SECTION 5 : Chart’s data source - Updating Charts

Using pictures instead of colors

How to create a fantastic pictograph

using the online-loyalty free photos

button

Use Pictures in Chart and how to create a Pictograph

SECTION 6 : Using Text, Pictures, Shapes and Effects

Saving a chart as a picture and creating picture effects, three dimensional (3D) rotation and other settings

Unlinking a Chart and saving it as a picture - Static charts


Learn to use a not so famous but fantastic tool

Create a live picture of an entire range

Useful for making dashboards

Excel’s Camera Tool and how we can use it


• Camera tool is useful when we create Dashboards

• There are 3 basic ways to enhance your dashboards.

• 1) It’s very easy to resize and move the picture of a chart and test different layouts

• 2) Sometimes we need to rotate a vertical chart to a horizontal orientation. When the live

picture of the chart is created , all you have to do is rotate the picture using the rotate

handle.

• 3) If you want small charts, the picture of the chart allows you to achieve small chart sizes

and keeps the pixel ratios intact.

Camera tool and 3 basic ways to enhance your Dashboard


Various ways to add shapes to a chart

How to use shape effects (like shadow, glow and 3D rotation)

Using Shapes and Effects to make prettier Charts


Add text anywhere in the chart

Choosing the correct wordart style to create an impressive title

Using Text and Wordart fancy Styles in a Chart


Sparklines are small, simple charts that

are easy to make, easy to understand,

and small enough to fit in a single cell

alongside your data.

Learn everything about sparklines and

why they are useful for dashboards.

What are Sparklines?

SECTION 7 : Sparklines and Mini Graphs that Make Data Analysis Fun

An in-cell chart is useful because it can instantly provide trending details.

Learn how to make an instant, in-cell bar graph.

In-cell charting techniques using REPT function

SECTION 7 : Sparklines and Mini Graphs that Make Data Analysis Fun

Column Chart - the most widely used chart type

SECTION 8 : Basic Excel Chart Types

0

200

400

600

Year 2010 Year 2011 Year 2012 Year 2013 Year 2014

Clustered Column

Excel Power Point Word Outlook

0

500

1000

1500

2000


Stacked Column


Excel

Word

0

200

400

600

Year2010

Year2011

Year2012

Year2013

Year2014

3D Column


Bar Chart - and the main difference with Column Chart

0 100 200 300 400 500 600

Year 2010

Year 2011

Year 2012

Year 2013

Year 2014

Clustered Bar

Outlook Word Power Point Excel

0 500 1000 1500 2000

Year 2010

Year 2011

Year 2012

Year 2013

Year 2014

3D Stacked Bar



Line Chart (show me the trend!)

0

100

200

300

400

500

600


Line


Sales

€0.00

€200,000.00

€400,000.00

€600,000.00

€800,000.00

€1,000,000.00

€1,200,000.00

€1,400,000.00

01-0

1-13

03

-01

-13

05-0

1-13

07-0

1-13

09-0

1-13

11-0

1-13

13-0

1-13

15-0

1-13

17-0

1-13

19-0

1-13

21-0

1-13

23-0

1-13

25-0

1-13

27-0

1-13

29-0

1-13

31-0

1-13

Line


Pie Chart - show proportions to a whole3D pie


Pie



Doughnut Chart - a pie chart displaying more than one data series

Chart Title



Area Chart - useful for time periods

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800


Stacked Area


Sales

€0.00

€500,000.00

€1,000,000.00

€1,500,000.00

01-0

1-13

03-0

1-13

05-0

1-13

07-0

1-13

09-0

1-13

11-0

1-13

13-0

1-13

15-0

1-13

17-0

1-13

19-0

1-13

21-0

1-13

23-0

1-13

25

-01

-13

27-0

1-13

29-0

1-13

31-0

1-13

Line


Scatter (XY) Chart - ideal for scientific, statistical or engineering data

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

0:00 4:48 9:36 14:24 19:12 0:00 4:48

No of Ice-cream Sales


Bubble Chart - a combination of Scatter and Area Chart

-100

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

-2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

Market share(%)

Sales ($)


Stock Chart - ideal for stocks or temperatures

33.00

38.00

43.00

48.00

53.00

58.00

26-08-14

02-09-14

09-09-14

16-09-14

23-09-14

30-09-14

07-10-14

14-10-14

21-10-14

28-10-14

Chart Title

Open High Low Close


Radar Charts (or spider charts!) and Surface Charts

0

5

10

15

20

25

30Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Okt

Nov

Dec

Radar with Markers

Avg Temp. Greece Avg Temp. Italy Avg Temp. Germany

Avg Temp. Greece

Avg Temp. Germany

0

10

20

30

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Okt

No

v

Dec

Surface Chart

0-10 10-20 20-30


Gantt Chart - for project management applications

Gantt charts make it easy to visualize project management timelines by transforming task names, start dates, durations, and end dates into cascading horizontal bar charts.

SECTION 9 : Advanced Excel Chart Types (Gantt chart, Speedometer-Gauge chart and more)

Speedometer (Gauge) Charts: learn how to create and use them in Dashboards

In this lecture we will create an amazing workable speedometer or gauge graph.

Speedometers are often used in professional dashboard and provide key performance informations about current indicators.


Pareto Chart or the 80-20 chart - for business analysis

A Pareto chart combines a column chart and a line graph. The Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.


Waterfall (or Bridge) charts - Use them and make awesome sales analysis

An Excel Waterfall chart shows the cumulative effect of positive and negative amounts, based on a starting value.


Bullet chart - a variation of a thermometer chart

Found in many dashboards, the bullet graph serves as a replacement for dashboard gauges and meters.


Combo Chart - a combination of different chart types

A combination chart is a chart that combines two or more chart types in a single chart.


0

5

10

15

20

25

30

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400


Chart Title

Excel sales(million $) Advertising expenses

Dynamic Charts and a taste of Dashboards


How new data become automatically part of the chart

Using OFFSET function to create a dynamic chart

Create a Dynamic Chart using Tables

SECTION 10 : Dynamic Charts - Learn how to create Interactive Excel Charts

If you cannot use data tables, you can use OFFSET formula to make dynamic ranges for chart data

Create a Dynamic Chart using OFFSET Function


Dynamic Charts using Data Filters

Did you know that your charts will dynamically adjust as you filter the underlying data? Learn how in this lecture.


Create an Interactive Chart using Form Controls, like scroll bar

Here is a dynamic way of presenting the information, for example month by month, based on your projections. A pretty effective way of presenting the information using form controls.

Learn all the steps to create a powerful dynamic chart and the usefuleness for the dashboards.


Create a Histogram in Excel using Frequency Distribution

A Histogram is a chart that displays frequency data.

Learn in this lecture to create a Histogram, showing specific data organized into breakpoints and using the function frequency properly.


How to dynamically change chart data using INDEX function

Learn how to create awesome dynamic charts with INDEX function


The anatomy of a Pivot Table

Pivot tables allow you to manipulate report output for ad hoc and interactive analysis.

The Pivot table is composed of the following areas:

• Filters• Rows• Columns• valuesLearn how to create a Pivot Table easy.

SECTION 11 : Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts

How to create a Pivot Charts using different methods

A PivotChart can help you make sense of this data. While a PivotChart shows data series, categories, and chart axes the same way a standard chart does, it also gives you interactive filtering controls right on the chart so you can quickly analyze a subset of your data.

Learn the two main methods to create a Pivot Chart.


Modifying Pivot Chart and how to use Slicers to filter data

Slicers provide buttons that you can click to filter PivotTable data. In addition to quick filtering, slicers also indicate the current filtering state, which makes it easy to understand what exactly is shown in a filtered PivotTable report.

Learn how to present Pivot Charts in an interactive way using Slicers and various ways to modify a Pivot Chart.


Changing the format of a Pivot Chart and the role of field buttons

You can filter the data in a pivot chart directly using field buttons.

How can we change the colors, elements and layout of a chart? Also learn an easy way to filter the data inside the chart, using field buttons.


Analyze Facebook Ad Reports with Excel Pivot Tables and Charts

An easy way to analyze Facebook Ad Reports with Excel Pivot Tables and Charts


Dashboards: Design principles and 10 golden rules

Dashboards can be powerful tools in communicating your organization's important measurement data at a glance.

Here are 10 golden rules

SECTION 12 : Excel Dashboards for Business using Pivot Charts and Pivot Tables

How to create a Dashboard -part: 1






Linking charts with Word and Powerpoint

SECTION 13 : The finishing touch –sharing and printing our chart

Printing a chart

SECTION 13 : The finishing touch –sharing and printing our chart

Thank you!

Education

FREE COUPON - Excel Charts: New Udemy Course: Learn everything about Charts with Microsoft Excel 2013