Show Trend Arrows in Excel Chart Data Labels

Excel chart data labels are quite boring. While there is not much you can do with these, a bit of excel trickery can add some glamor to it. In this post, I will show you how to show trends in chart labels in a bar chart. Something as shown below: Show Positive/Negative Trend Arrows in Excel Chart …

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10 Tricks to Fix Slow Excel Spreadsheets (Speed-up Excel)

If there is one thing that unites us all, it has to be the frustration to keep up with a slow excel spreadsheets. While the impact on the performance may be negligible when there is less data, it becomes more profound as you add more and more data/calculations to the workbook. 9 out of 10 …

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Create Dynamic Target Line in Excel Bar Charts

If you are in the sales department and your life is all about targets, this charting technique is for you. And if you are not, read it anyway to learn some cool excel charting tricks. In this blog post, I will show you a super way to create a dynamic target line in an Excel …

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Create Dynamic Hyperlinks in Excel

Hyperlinks are Excel’s shortcut way to jump to the required data point in the same workbook, a different workbook, or an external URL. While hyperlinks are mostly static links, here is the way you can use to create dynamic hyperlinks. By Dynamic Hyperlinks, I mean links that change based on the selection (or any other …

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An Introduction to Excel Data Filter Options

Wherever there is data, there is a need to filter it. Excel Data Filter feature gives you many ways to filter the data – based on text, value or date. Excel Data Filter Suppose you have the data as shown below: To activate Excel data filter for this data, select the entire data and click …

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An Introduction to Data Validation in Excel

Data Validation in Excel lets you control the data that can be entered in a cell. You can restrict the user to enter only a specified range of numbers or text or date. You can also use data validation functionality to create an Excel drop down list (which is definitely one of the coolest and …

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Give your Data a Makeover!! Learn All about Excel Data Formatting

Working with data all day long in Excel could be boring. Sometimes, there is no alternative to it, however, you can still bring in some colors and zing to it by using Excel features to format the data. Formatting the data in Excel can increase its readability tremendously. Let me introduce you to some of …

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How to Spot Data Point in Excel Scatter Chart

I often use scatter chart with many data points. One of the most irritating things is to spot the data point in Excel chart. Excel does not give you a way to display the names of the data points. While there are many add-ins available to do this, I will show you a super cool (without add-in) …

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How to Insert Line Break in Excel (Quick and Easy)

A line break in Excel can be used to end the current line and start a new line in the same cell (as shown below). Notice that in the pic above, Morning is in the second row in the same cell. You may want to insert a line break in Excel when you have multiple …

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