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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Floating Quartile Chart - 1143 - Learn Excel from MrExcel Podcast

Michael from Kansas City asks how to build a floating quartile chart. Episode 1143 shows you how.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

MrExcel's Learn Excel #956 - Chart Labels Between

Tamir asks if you can add labels between columns in a chart. Episode 956 shows a tricky way to solve this.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

MrExcel's Learn Excel #948 - Reverse Chart Axis

Create a bar chart from a pivot table. If you sort the pivot table into ascending sequence, the chart sorts into descending sequence. Episode 948 will show you the obscure solution to this problem.

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Monday, January 22, 2007

Episode 427 - Gantt Chart

This cool trick shows you how to create a Gantt chart right in the Excel cells by using Conditional Formatting. The chart is a live chart that colors cells based on several data values. Episode 427 shows you how.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Episode 373 - Charting Magnitude

Sometimes you want a chart to show two different kinds of data - for example, revenue, and gross profit percentage. If you create such a chart, the size of the revenue bars makes it impossible to see the detail in the profit percentage bars. The trick is to plot one of the series along a secondary axis. Episode 373 shows you how.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Episode 372 - Custom Charts

Once you have customized a chart, add the chart to your library of user defined charts. You can then apply all of that chart formatting to a new chart with a single keystroke! Episode 372 shows you how.

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