Friday Challenge – Mimic Newspaper Chart Line Style in Excel

Hi All, Here is a fun challenge that I thought you might like.  I  saw this chart in the Denver Post and I wondered how...

Terrible Chart Follow-up

Hi All, Sorry my postings have been a little slow.  I had several things come up.  1) I got hacked again and had to spend...

Terrible Chart Tuesday – What do you think of this chart?

Part of Excel Dashboard design and development should be to know what is right and what is just wrong with a chart or dashboard. ...

Colorado Snow Globe

Check out what I was seeing out side my back yard window this weekend.  Looks like a real life snow globe. Let me know what...

Friday Challenge Answers – The Boss Says…

I received some great responses from lots of fans.  Thank you so much for all your great comments.  I agree with most and my...

How-to Make an Excel Clustered Stacked Column Chart with Different Colors by Stack

In a popular post, I showed you how to easily create a Clustered Stacked Column chart in Excel using Multi-Level Category Axis options. Here is...

Friday Challenge – The Boss Says “Can you create some graphs?”

Here is the scenario that thrills Excel data analysts and sends chills down most employee’s spines: Thursday afternoon: Your department sent out an Excel spreadsheet...

Excel 2013 Chart Bug

I think I found a bug in Microsoft Excel 2013.  It is not a major bug, but annoying like most bugs. Do you see the...

Friday Challenge Answers – Food Donation Excel Dashboard Chart

Last week we presented a chart challenge to see how you represent Food Donation data.   Don said that we should keep it simple and sent...

Friday Challenge – How Would You Chart It?

Today the ExcelDashboardTemplate.com Friday Challenge is up to you and your wildest imagination. An Excel chart newbie posted this data set and wasn’t sure the...