CP050: Fifty Excel Tips to make you awesome
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This is going to be epic!!! In the 50th session of Chandoo.org podcast, we have 50 Excel tips to make you awesome.
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- Thank you message
- Fifty tips in 5 buckets
- Shortcuts & Productivity
- Formulas
- Managing Data
- Charts
- Using Excel better
CP049: Don’t do data dumps!!!
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In the 49th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about data dumps!
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- What is a data dump
- Examples of data dump
- Why we dump
- Ways to avoid data dumps
- Go for information dumps
- Sort the dump
- Filter the dump
- Give a table
- Resources for you
CP048: How to create animated charts in Excel?
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In the 48th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s make some animated charts!!!
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- Announcements
- Why animate your charts?
- Non-VBA methods to animate charts
- Excel 2013’s built-in animation effects
- Iterative formula approach
- VBA based animation
- Cartoon film analogy
- Understanding the VBA part
- Example animated chart – Sales of a new product
- Resources and downloads for you
Employee training tracker & calendar – tutorial & download
Imagine you are the head of training department at ACME Inc. You arrange training programs round the year to empower your team. It is hard work, coordinating between employees, trainers, department heads, venues and coffee machines. What if there is something to help you keep track of all this? I am not talking about getting you a shiny new iPad, you silly. I am talking about a tracker & calendar built in Excel that ties everything together (well, almost everything, you still have to fill the coffee machine.)
We are going to build a training program tracker & calendar using Excel.
Contest: Visualize KPI data
Here is a quick visualization challenge for you.
There are 25 KPIs and each has a base value, current month, corresponding month values. The KPIs also have targets.
The data looks like this:
Download the data:
Click here to download the data for this contest.
Rules for this contest:
- Visualize this data using one Excel chart (one chart per KPI is ok too).
- You may omit any any data
- You can use interactive charts.
- Do not use add-ins or VBA to make your charts
Go ahead and make your chart(s).
CP046: Gantt charts & project planning using Excel
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In the 46th session of Chandoo.org podcast, let’s talk about gantt charts and project plans.
What is in this session?
In this podcast,
- A brief intro to Excel 2016
- What is a Gantt chart?
- How Gantt charts can help us?
- How to create Gantt charts in Excel
- Using bar charts with invisible series
- Using conditional formatting and formulas
- Using ready-made templates
- Resources on Gantt charts & project planning
- Conclusions
Show forecast values in a different color with this simple trick [charting]
Let’s say you made a chart to show actual and forecast values. By default, both values look in same color. But we would like to separate forecast values by showing them in another color.
If you are a seasoned Excel user, you may be thinking, “Oh, that’s easy. I will just create 2 sets of data (one for actual and one for forecast), make a chart from them and apply separate colors.”
But here is a really simple way to get the same effect.
Use a semi-transparent box to mask the forecast values, as shown above. Read on to learn how to do this.