PowerUp Workshop: Making Beautiful Excel Charts

Posted by admin on Monday, January 4, 2010 · 1 Comment 

What if you could turn a drabby Excel chart:

into something like these?
Beautiful Charts with Excel. Another example.Beautiful Charts with Microsoft ExcelBeautiful Charts with Excel

For many Excel users, there is a need to produce clear, concise and even attractive charts in Excel without using expensive software. What is lacking are the clear techniques to do so. Compelled by this need, AEternus has designed a PowerUp Workshop to show participants how to achieve this objective.

The Workshop Outline:

This 1 day workshop will serve as the pre-requisite for the more advanced Creating Executive Dashboards in Excel workshop.

You can sign up Making Beautiful Excel Charts.

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One Response to “PowerUp Workshop: Making Beautiful Excel Charts”
  1. get tips says:
    January 20, 2010 at 3:32 am

    finally, I could find your post again. You have few useful tips for my school project. Now, I won’t forget to bookmark it. :)

    Reply

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