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How to Format Dates in X Axes of Mini-Charts in Excel Reports

by Charley Kyd on October 1, 2009

When most Excel users create charts, they make them way too large. For many reasons, using mini-charts is much easier to read.

To illustrate, this Excel dashboard report contains 28 charts: [click to continue...]

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Excel charts, seasonality, & analysis: Five lessons from the WSJ

by Charley Kyd on September 23, 2009

In my tiny town on the Washington coast, I don’t get the Wall Street Journal until it arrives in our mail box about noon most weekdays. So at breakfast this morning I read an article in yesterday’s Journal, which offers some great advice for Excel users in business.

Don’t get me wrong. The article, New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies, didn’t discuss Excel at all. Instead, it discussed some fascinating data. [click to continue...]

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