Once every week Pointy Haired Dilbert celebrates the art of chart making by sharing 4-5 of the best info-graphics featured in various web sites. Click here to see the visualizations featured earlier.
Anatomy of a Great Speech – Obama’s acceptance speech at DNC
Presentation Zen captures Obama’s symphony like acceptance speech in a graph shown above. Do read Garr Reynold’s remarks.
Tracking Hurricane Gustav a la infographic style
These days telling a complex story like how a hurricane strikes is made easy, thanks to tons of flash based visualization tools available for news reporters. [via Flowing Data]
How would tell your story if you are aiming to change a habit? – Google Chrome Comic Book
Google has launched their open source browser Chrome. Now this is a very bold step, when millions of people have developed a hobby of using IE or Firefox and pretty much satisfied with them. How did Google tell their story of new browser and created a need for it ? By creating a comic book and telling every one how browsers work, about memory leaks, garbage collection, UI design. Very effective.
More Olympics visualizations – News paper comes to life and tells impressive stories
What would you do when you are revamping infographics department of a leading news paper? Folks at El Heraldo have done a fantastic job.
Sony Walkman Subway map advertisement
Okay, this is not infographic, but it is a very creative way to tell that Sony Walkman is a constant companion no matter which route you take on the metro. Very creative, very effective. I can’t imagine taking metro to anywhere without company or music. [via cool infographics]
Click here to check out other cool infographics. 🙂
8 Responses to “Top 5 keyboard shortcuts for Excel Charts”
As far as I remember (checked, again, 2 minutes ago) in my "Excel 2013" in order to select various chart elements I need to use the Arrow keys and not the TAB key.
Practically, the TAB key does nothing (within a Chart).
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Michael (Micky) Avidan
Thanks for pointing this out. This is how I remember it too, but when I was recording the video yesterday, only TAB key worked. MS must have changed the keys in Excel 2016. I have edited the post to include both keys.
The key navigation on charts is different in 2016.
TAB cycles through a layer of objects (SHIFT+TAB cycles backwards)
ENTER move down a layer
ESC moves up a layer
So on a column chart with title/legend/data labels if you select the plotarea the TAB will go through Title > Legend > Plotarea.
ENTER at plotarea will then select Vertical axis. Tab will take you through
Horizontal axis > gridlines > Series > Horizontal Axis.
ENTER with series selected will then allow you to TAB through individual data points and data labels.
If you ENTER on datalabels you can TAB through each data label.
ALT + F1 : to create default chart
ALT+E S T = CTRL + ALT + V, T : I find that easier to remember
I second what Michael already said about TAB and arrow keys. I can't help but think if this is related to the "," or ";" as separator. I prefer to use the chart tools - layout- drop down box, anyway.
Got to be F11 for instant charting. Highlight your data , hit F11 and voila! ?
Ctrl+1 is the most important chart shortcut. In fact, it works for any Excel object: whatever is selected, Ctrl+1 opens the task pane or dialog to format that object.
Somewhere along the line, maybe when Excel 2016 came out, the arrow keys stopped working to cycle through the elements of a chart. But what works is holding Ctrl while clicking the arrow keys. I haven't gotten used to the Tab and other keys, but as long as Ctrl+Arrow works, I'm good.
And F4 used to be so helpful when formatting a lot of charts. But since Excel 2007 came out, it has been mostly useless. It used to remember a whole set of changes at once, so I get that the newer modeless dialogs make that impractical. But now it only seems to work with formatting of lines and borders, and maybe fills. I find myself writing a lot of VBA one-liners in the Immediate Window to handle these tedious formatting tasks.
after clicking on a chart, is there a shortcut key to copy it?
Thank you for the Alt E S T - tip. This is more than a time saver. Because of dynamic charts or de-activated external references to data when you make the charts, you often have empty charts that are otherwise impossible to format. So this shortcut helps adressing that. I will work with it more and see if there remain some obstacles.