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November 1, 2018

Excel Line Charts vs Dot Plot

A common chart mistake is to use a line chart for the wrong type of data. An example of that

October 11, 2018

Hide Blanks in Excel PivotTables

There are a couple of ways you can hide blanks in Excel PivotTables. To be clear, the ‘blanks’ I’m referring

October 2, 2018

Excel Data Types

AI powered Excel Data Types will transform the way we work with Excel by enabling a cell to contain much

September 4, 2018

Excel Hash Interactive Bug Menu

Excel Hash is an Excel competition dreamed up by fellow Excel MVP, Oz du Soleil. It’s based on the popular

August 21, 2018

Excel Chart Titles

Excel Chart titles are often a wasted opportunity to connect with your audience and drive home your message. So, let’s

August 14, 2018

Excel Analyze Data

Understanding your data and creating Excel charts has never been easier with Excel's Analyze Data (previously known as Excel Ideas

August 8, 2018

Excel Waterfall Charts

Excel Waterfall charts are now available to Office 365 users via the Insert > Charts menu. It makes light work

July 19, 2018

Excel Functions Translator

It’s often difficult enough to figure out the correct Excel functions to use, but it’s significantly harder if you also

June 25, 2018

Excel Slicer Formatting

Excel Slicers are great, but they’re a bit on the chunky side and that can be a pain when you’re

June 19, 2018

Power Query Consolidate Excel Sheets

Splitting data over multiple sheets is perhaps one of the worst Excel crimes I see. It’s a crime because it

June 12, 2018

Excel Power Query Add Column from Example

The Power Query Add Column from Example feature simplifies a task many of us perform daily. For example, how often

June 6, 2018

Office 365 vs Perpetual Licences

From time to time I get asked which Microsoft Office licence* should I get; Office 365 subscription, or the one-time

May 16, 2018

Excel Mini Charts

Excel mini charts are a great alternative to Sparklines. Mini charts are just regular charts made really small. You might

May 8, 2018

Excel Multi-colored Line Charts

Excel multi-colored line charts are a little gimmicky, after all we don’t need color to tell if a line is

May 3, 2018

Excel 3D Maps

Excel 3D Maps in 2016, or Power Map as it’s known in Excel 2013, enable you to visualise data in,

April 25, 2018

Excel PivotTable Quick Explore

With PivotTable Quick Explore we can filter and drill down in PivotTables and Pivot Charts without the field list exposed.

April 4, 2018

Relative Named Ranges

Excel Named Ranges is a vast topic that includes some simple techniques that we all can and should use to

March 22, 2018

Excel ADDRESS Function

The Excel ADDRESS Function returns a cell address for specified row and column coordinates. Optional arguments allow you to specify

March 14, 2018

Excel Online PivotTables

Inserting PivotTables in Excel Online is now possible. It’s still in its infancy with many features you may be used

February 14, 2018

Excel Infographics

Excel infographics, like the one below, are easy to build and there are loads of tools you can use to

February 5, 2018

Excel Forecast Sheet

The Excel Forecast Sheet and charts are a new feature available in Excel 2016. In just a few clicks you

January 31, 2018

Labelling Events in Excel Charts

Plotting data over time can reveal patterns and trends, but often blips in the data require further explanation. We can

December 14, 2017

Excel Chart Formatting Tips

Format your dashboards and reports fast with these pro Excel chart formatting tips. Watch the Video Pro Tip 1 –

December 6, 2017

Excel Dot Plot Charts

Dumbbells and Lollipop Charts Excel Dot Plots, dumbbells and lollipop charts are good for comparing one, two or three points

November 30, 2017

Visualizing Parts to a Whole in Excel Charts

When you think of visualizing parts to a whole in Excel charts the first thing that’s likely to come to

November 6, 2017

Excel PivotTable Error Handling

Obviously, we don’t want our PivotTables littered with #DIV/0! and #NULL! errors if we’re presenting them in a report (like

November 2, 2017

Excel PivotTable Percentage Change

PivotTables can make quick work of summarising and analysing data and they have some handy built in percentage calculations available

October 25, 2017

Extract Date or Time from a Date and Time

We often need to extract the date or time portion from a date-time serial number for use in other functions.

October 25, 2017

Excel DATE Function

The Excel DATE function combines separate year, month and day values and converts them into a date serial number formatted

October 25, 2017

Convert Month Names to Numbers

Often, we'll have a list of month names that we want to convert to a date, or even just convert