A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 1

I have scoured the web and magazines for beautiful charts designs that we can use in our Excel reports. This will be part of a gallery I am creating. Do visit this blog for regular updates.

Black backgrounds can work with charts!

Good use of callouts to highlight a message.

Good use of callouts to highlight a message.

Note the use of consistent colours.

Note the use of consistent colours.

Black, white, red and blue. What drama!

Black, white, red and blue. What drama!

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One Response to “A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 1”
  1. Somnath says:

    Excel charts are beautiful but you also can checkout Visifire charts. They are providing sexy bright enterprise standard looking Charts & Gauges. The best parts are smooth update with animation, realtime update are really awesome.

    Gallery Link: http://visifire.com/silverlight_2d_column_charts_gallery.php

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