How to Create Combination Charts in Excel – Step-by-Step Tutorial

Combination charts in Excel let you present and compare two different data-sets that are related to each other (in a single chart). When you create a regular chart in Excel, it usually has only one X-axis and one Y-axis. But with combination charts, you can have two Y-axis, which allows you to have two different …

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How to Handle Data Gaps in Excel Charts (Examples)

A lot of times we have charts that have to handle empty data cells. Excel gives you the flexibility to decide how the empty cells should be treated. Suppose I have the data for date-wise sales of a product from a shop. Assuming that the shop is closed on Sunday and national holidays, there are …

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How to Create Multi-category Charts in Excel

It is possible to create a multi-category chart in Excel (as shown below). The trick is to arrange the data in a certain way, that makes Excel interpret as having multiple categories. Suppose I have the data for the monthly expenses I make on the food items (as listed below). The idea to create a chart …

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How to Create Dynamic Labels in Excel Scroll Bar

I often use scroll bars in an Excel dashboard, which gives a user the freedom to change its values and play with the data. If you have multiple scroll bars in your dashboards, it is helpful to display the current value of each scroll bar. Something as shown below: The idea is to display the value …

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Excel Custom Number Formatting Tricks

Formatting to hide all text values

Excel Custom Number formatting is the clothing for data in excel cells. You can dress these the way you want. All you need is a bit of know-how of how Excel Custom Number Format works. With custom number formatting in Excel, you can change the way the values in the cells show up, but at the …

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Display Main and Subcategory in Drop Down List in Excel

Someone recently asked me if it was possible to get a main category and subcategory in a drop-down list in Excel, (something as shown below): My first thought was to do this using VBA (if possible), but the answer is so easy, it surprised me. Creating Subcategory in Drop Down List in Excel All you need …

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Use VLookup to Get the Last Number in a List in Excel

Excel has its own limitations, and in this blog post, I will show you how we can use one of the limitations to our advantage. Get the Last Number in a List in Excel using Excel VLOOKUP Function The largest positive number that you can use in Excel is 9.99999999999999E+307 (I tried this in Excel 2010). …

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