Picturesque charts

o far, in several “recipes,” you can find out how to create and beautify the charts. This one will be about how to combine charts and images. First, in the case of a simple column column, you will see how to replace the columns with the image. Then we will add the picture as a background. Although it will not be about new features here, using some tricks will help you to make your reports more beautiful.

Scatter chart

When I was in school, and learning about Cartesian (Descartes’s) coordinate system I must admit I liked it a lot! I was in love with the idea that in the intersection of x and y axes, dots can be drawn, and then they connect to the line and show some trend. It’s been a long time since than, and in the honor of legendary Rene Descartes I’ll be creating a recipe about scatter charts.

Speedometer

When analyzing key performance indicators (KPIs) for their display is often used a gauge that resembles a speedometer in a car. This is not a standard Excel chart. There are commercial add-ins used to create this type of chart that could be found on the Internet, but there is a technique to create it by combining and modifying the existing charts of Doughnut and Pie Chart.

Creating Gantt chart

Gantt chart s a chart type used to track project realization through phases, so we can see when the activity starts, how long it takes and when it finishes. It does not exist as a standard chart, but it can be created by modifying the Bar chart. In the following text, step by step, you will be able to find out how to create such report.

Difference in dates

In one of the previous “recipes” you could find out how to calculate the number of past days between two dates. Excel has another function that can be used for this purpose. It is a hidden DATEDIF function, which, for two given dates, can calculate the number of years, months or days. The following text will be about how this function is used …