A gallery of Beautiful Charts for Excel part 2

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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.

Intelligent chart layout makes it look good.

Intelligent chart layout makes it look good.

I love the use of coloured bands to give a sense of passing time.

I love the use of coloured bands to give a sense of passing time.

3 simple red bands gave this mess of numbers and charts structure.!

3 simple red bands gave this mess of numbers and charts structure.!

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