Here is a quick excel tip to make your charts look professional by showing symbols in the axis labels instead of text.
Just follow these 4 simple steps:
- First identify the symbols you want to show on the axis or as data label from symbol fonts like webdings, wingdings or a custom dingbat font like company logos
- Now use this symbol characters as axis labels
- Finally change the font to the selected symbol font
- Really there is no 4th step, so go ahead add a little jazz to the chart. Happy Friday!
Some more charts with symbols used as axis labels / data labels.
Also try: Min-max charts to tell the story better, Incell graphs with colors, hot looking thermometer chart
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Is there anyway to get the Grand Total to be broken out in the same fashion as the items above it? For instance, if you have in column 1, widget a, widget b, and have their sales by month in column 2, I'd like to see the grand total also be by month, for widget a & b combined.
I can't get anything other than a single line for the grand total, rather than the same format as the data above.
Widget A Month Sales
Jan 100
Feb 200
Widget B
Jan 150
Feb 250
Grand total - here I would also like to have Jan, Feb.
Jan 250
Feb 450