Project Management: Show Milestones in a Timeline [Part 3 of 6]
Learn how to create a timeline chart in excel to display the progress of your project. Timelines are a good way to communicate about the project status to new team members and stake holders. Also, download the excel timeline chart template and make your own timeline charts.
How to Round and Sort Data using Excel Formulas?
Cheryl asks via e-mail, “I was wondering if you could help me figure out how to combine the round formula with the rank formula? I need to first round all the numbers and then rank them.”
Of course we can solve this by simply using array formulas. Curious? Find out more by reading the rest of this post.
Create a Combination Chart, Add Secondary Axis in Excel [15 Second Tutorial]
Two most commonly asked or searched queries when it comes to charting are,
- How to combine two chart types in one chart, like a line chart combined with bar chart?
- How to add a secondary axis to the chart so that one or more data series are plotted on the secondary axis?
Watch this video tutorial to learn how to do both in less than 15 seconds.
Watch it on youtube: Creating combination charts and adding secondary axis – video tutorial
Create a number sequence for each change in a column in excel [Quick Tip]
Here is a quick formula trick you can use to generate sequence numbers that only increment when there is a change. Assuming the sequence of values are in column C from C3, you can write the following formula in B4 onwards (B3 will be 1, wake up…) =IF(C4=C3,B3,B3+1) Now just copy paste the formula over […]
Team To Do Lists – Project Tracking Tools using Excel [Part 2 of 6]
In today’s installment of project management using excel, we will learn about project tracking tool – to-do lists. Projects are nothing but a group of people getting together and achieving an objective – like building system or constructing a bridge. While it is important to have a overall project plan and vision, it is equally important to understand how various day to day project activities are going on. This is where to do lists can help you a lot. Read on…
Asset Allocation Chart Turns Zombie [ChartBusters #1]
In this installment we take a look at Asset Allocation Chart that looks like it is hexed. Our reader DMurphy submitted this.
Do you know these Double-click Tricks in Excel?
Most of us think of mastering formulas, learning macros and being supergood with charts when we think of being productive with spreadsheets. But often learning simple stuff like keyboard shortcuts, using mouse and working with menus and ribbons can be a huge productivity booster for us. So as part of this installment of spreadcheats we […]