How-to Draw a Straight Line with Excel Shapes
Have you ever tried to draw a straight line in Excel only to get frustrated?
It can be so Frustrating :) to be off by...
How-to Make an Excel Stacked Area Chart Cliff
A while back, I published an article on how to make an Area Cliff Chart.
Now this isn’t a standard chart type.
If you use the Standard...
How-to Add Specific RGB or HSL Colors in Your Company Chart or Dashboard
Do you want your Excel charts and dashboards to really stand out at your company?
Well then you should start using custom colors in all...
How-to Create a Combo Line and Column Pivot Chart
Some Excel users can be confused when it comes to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts. I recently saw a post asking for this help:
"Please...
Excel Pranks: Non-VBA Edition 1
We should have some fun as it is the start of a long weekend and the end of summer.
So what better way to have...
How to Fix Excel Wrap Text Feature when Your Rows Stop Expanding
In Excel, you will frequently have text that is longer than the cell width and you will often use the Wrap Text feature to...
Friday Challenge – Allocation Formulas
Today I have 2 formula challenges that you may find interesting. They are both different types of allocation formulas.
Challenge 1:
Problem: You have 9 tasks...
How-to Center Excel Clustered Chart Columns Over Horizontal Category Labels
When you have several series
in one chart and only one of those series appear per Horizontal Label Category, you probably want to center the...
Create a Excel Gantt Chart to Display a Music Festival Band Schedule
Here is Pete's answer to the recent Music Festival Schedule Challenge.
In this video, see how he used Index/Match functions as well as a helper...
How-to Make a Music Festival Schedule Using Excel Conditional Formatting
Recently, I saw an Excel User posting a question about how to make this Music Festival Schedule using Excel Charts.
However, he originally created the...
