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Charting Improvements in Excel 2007


Leo Laporte, Bill Jelen, and Kate Abraham on the set of The Lab on TechTV Canada.

The tip in this show is from Charts and Graphs for Excel 2007.

Excel 2007 offers a new charting engine:
  • Create a new - select your data and press Alt+F1
  • After creating a chart, use the 3 galleries on the Design ribbon to add broad formatting to your chart.
  • In many cases, the built-in choices on the Layout ribbon provide easy access to settings that use to be buried. For example, you can change the axis to show thousands, millions, etc.

  • Even though the popular options are on the layout ribbon, the More choice at the bottom of each menu offers additional options. For example, Trillions are in the More.

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This tip was originally published on June 12, 2007 and aired on TechTV in Canada and Australia on June 12, 2007.

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