Magazine quality charts in Excel 2003. How AEternus do it.

I’d like to show you how we run our Excel Charting courses in Aeternus. I promise that after attending our Excel Charting course, your Excel charting skills will definately go up by several notches. As an example, I plucked out a pretty line chart from the Economist Magazine August 2009 issue.

Line chart from Economist Aug 2009 issue

Line chart from Economist Aug 2009 issue

Imagine you can create such charts directly in Excel!

The benefits:

  • Refreshing way to present charts.
  • You do not need expensive charting software.
  • Explain your charts to management with your commentary.
  • Carry this skill everywhere you go.

The process:

Step 1: I started with data in a typical worksheet.

Sample figures in a Excel 2003 worksheet

Sample figures in a Excel 2003 worksheet

Step 2: Using the above figures, I insert a typical Excel line chart.

Step 3: We will coach you through detail steps to produce this Excel chart. Clearly, the results speak for themselves.

Once this chart is created, you simply need to update those numbers and new charts are redrawn. You can also update your expert comments right inside the chart!

New series of Excel 2003 charts are easily created

New series of Excel 2003 charts are easily created

Step 4: We don’t stop here. AEternus will build upon your newly acquired charting skills to create entire management dashboards.

You can view more details about our Dashboarding Course here.

No related posts.

Comments

One Response to “Magazine quality charts in Excel 2003. How AEternus do it.”
  1. NepliepeAwake says:

    Hello. Very interesting site and you lead a very interesting discussion. There is a nice atmosphere here and I’m sure I will often read your posts.
    From time to time I will also try to write something interesting.

Speak Your Mind

Tell us what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!


beautiful-dates-in-chart

Elegant Dates in Line Charts

I came across this stock chart in the Kuala Lumpur’s edition of the Business Times while I was in Malaysia. The chart has an elegant treatment of dates. I have seen this sort of designs in many magazines and wanted an afternoon challenge to do this in Excel. The exercise wasn’t very challenging after all. [...]

Continue Reading