Today's author, Scott Ruble, a Program Manager on the Excel team, is seeking feedback on a new prototype for building charts. When Office 2007 was released, one of the strong pieces of feedback was Excel needs to do a better job guiding users in the proper selection of charts to effectively communicate...
I saw this article in the LA Times about measuring Olympic Medals per capita. I like the idea, but I also think figuring in the GDP of the country makes sense. The US could throw a lot of money at an individual event and probably fair pretty well.
I got the GDP via Wikipedia [...]
I’m testing out widgenie (beta) and want to see how an embedded chart looks. I chose a pie chart because I’ve been reading lately how we all know pie charts are bad.
Anyway, this took about 10 seconds to create with Debra’s sample data. var myLogiWidget477e7c06_b129_47f5_b60b_617dfb112792...
I recently discovered how quick it is to create a simple Gantt chart in Excel.
The following example was created for Excel 2003. It should work the same for other versions. Create a worksheet similar to the above table.
Note: the formula in column D2 is =C2-B2. You’ll need to set the Cell Format...
Today's author, Helen Hosein, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Certain shadows created in Excel 2003 look different Excel 2007. In particular, you might notice that your old cell shadows, as well as shadows on things like Chart Titles might look a bit different when you open your workbooks in...
Today's author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Customers who author charts in presentations and reports often spend a significant amount of effort modifying their charts to get them looking just the way they want. While the new Chart Style and Chart Layout features in Office 2007...
Today's author: Danny Khen, a program manager who works on both the Excel and Excel Services teams. What is this about? Office 2007 introduced new default file formats – Open XML. Excel, Word and PowerPoint take advantage of them. One of the nicest things about those file formats is that they enable...