A magazine quality chart in Excel

Posted by on Friday, December 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

I know the idea of creating beautiful charts in Excel seems unfamiliar, but I assure you Excel is a very capable platform to do so. At first sight, the chart below does not look like it comes from Excel. But it did!

Non-traditional Excel chart

Non-traditional Excel chart

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