7. Advanced Chart Techniques

A Tool Chest of Advanced Charting Techniques

As the host of MrExcel.com, I get to see a lot of wild spreadsheets that people create. I have seen some amazing things come across my desk. This chapter covers some of the usual advanced charting tricks, and some unusual charts that you do not typically see in Excel. At the end of the chapter are a few examples of some charts that impressed me, so that you can see some of the cool things people can coax out of Excel.

The ideas in this section can be useful on most chart types that you work with. They include many techniques that you will come to ...

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