Excel 2024: Create Funnel Charts and Filled Map Charts


March 27, 2024 - by

Excel 2024: Create Funnel Charts and Filled Map Charts

In 2016, Microsoft 365 introduced Funnel charts, as well as Treemap, Sunburst, Box & Whisker, Pareto, and Histogram charts. A Funnel chart is great for showing a sales funnel.

A funnel chart is like a bar chart where the bars are centered. At the top, there are 500 prospects. The next bar shows 425 qualified prospects. Then 250 of those customers had a Needs Analysis. 150 had price quotes. 100 went to negotiations. Then 90 Close Sales. The bars form the shape of a funnel.
A funnel chart is like a bar chart where the bars are centered. At the top, there are 500 prospects. The next bar shows 425 qualified prospects. Then 250 of those customers had a Needs Analysis. 150 had price quotes. 100 went to negotiations. Then 90 Close Sales. The bars form the shape of a funnel.

Early in 2017, Map Charts appeared on the Insert tab in Microsoft 365. A Map chart shades closed regions on a map such as countries, states, counties, even zip code boundaries.

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