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Thanks to everyone who attended today's Excel chart session -- and promised follow-up
If you took the time to attend my Excel chart webcast today, thank you! If you were not able to make it but would still like to see it, the recorded version should be available on-demand by tomorrow. It was a lot of fun! I hope everyone found it useful...
As promised, following are some additional resources from today's session:
For a review of any charting basics ... creating and formatting charts -- there is an excellent series of short and easy-to-follow courses available free at Office Online Training:
Charts I: How to create a chart
Charts II: Choose the right chart type
Charts III: Create a professional-looking chart
For a review or more help with some of the topics we covered today, check out these earlier posts on this blog:
Sizing Excel Charts for Word
Linking Text Boxes, Chart Titles, and Data Labels Dynamically to Data
Show the Data's Exact End Date on a Line Chart X-Axis
To learn about using tables to create page layouts in Word, check out my course Tables II at Office Online Training.
Slightly off-topic, but still on charting ... check out a recent article for Microsoft At Work: Take Your Data Traveling: Using Charts and Diagrams in Multiple Programs ... that's another resource on sizing Excel charts for Word -- as well as how to import Excel charts into PowerPoint and how to create a Visio organization chart from Excel data (which I'll also demonstrate in next Tuesday's PowerPoint\Visio webcast).
For more tips ...
If you have my book, Microsoft Office Document Designer (MODD), and you have installed the tools on the MODD CD, you have a set of 75 tip sheets and articles accessible from the MODD toolbars in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, with step-by-step instructions as well as tips and tricks covering a wide range of document production -- including much of what we covered today.... along with lots of document and chart samples.
And, for great Excel tips from a couple of Excel MVPs -- I can't say enough good things about these two guys:
Curt Frye, Excel genius (who was watching the session today - thanks, Curt! :) is the author of several Excel books. Find tips and tools and lots of fun stuff on his site: http://thatexcelguy.com/
Jon Peltier is a scientist and also an Excel genius. He takes a very different approach to charting than I do, being a scientist, rather than a presentation person like myself ... for a different perspective and lots of great tips, check him out:http://peltiertech.com/
If you need resources for anything I didn't post here, or have a question that you didn't get a chance to ask in today's session, please post a comment and I'll reply asap.
Meanwhile, hope to see you all on Tuesday for my next webcast, http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032287364&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.
Happy Thursday everyone!
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