Use this trick to show Excel Data Bars (the in-cell micro-chart) as a ‘percentage to total’ rather than relative to the max value Read More
NETWORKDAYS (That’s Net Work Days, not Network Days) is a versatile spreadsheet function that lets you calculate working days between two dates, allowing for weekends, public holidays and more. Read More
Familiarise yourself with two of Excels fantastic new Chart Types – the Sunburst, and Treemap (collectively known as Hierarchical charts) Read More
Create colourful, engaging charts using stacked images in this comprehensive Excel walk through. Read More
Excel 2016 has given us a plethora of useful – and long overdue – chart types for us to work with. One of these, is the Waterfall Chart I‘ve written before about how to create a Waterfall Chart in Excel – it has long been one of the more challenging chart types to re-create, so Read More
Learn about 2 of the exciting new functions released as part of the Excel 2016 January update Read More
Master the available options in Excel for ranking you data, including the updated Rank.Eq functions. Read More
I originally posted this to my LinkedIn Profile, which you can find here, but thought I’d share it on here as well!
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Plenty has been said before about whether or not you should use Pie Charts to present your data.
A good article covering their main pitfalls can be found here;
and a slightly lighter take on them can be found here;
Yet, it was my own father who reminded me that Pie Charts can be put to good use, as was the case with Florence Nightingale. (Though, they were of the somewhat more useful Rose Diagram type than bog standard Pie chart, but I take the point!)
Having said that, I came across this little gem, on the BBC news website of all places, which really must be the single worst usage of Pie Charts I’ve ever come across
Managing the file size of Excel files can seem a challenge, but there are some fairly simple steps you can take to make it a bit easier.
This post will take you through file management through File Formats, File Formatting and File Content, before finishing with some file sharing tips. Read More
Scatter charts are a great way to present the relationship between two data points
In my example, I’m using a scatter charts to monitor student test results – I want to compare their latest test score against how that score has changed from their last test.