Charts and Graphs for Microsoft Office Excel 2007

by Bill Jelen

Provides information on using the spreadsheet software to create and utilize graphs and charts, discussing themes, colors, shadows, and transparency.

480 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2007

About the author

Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 50 books about Microsoft Excel including Pivot Table Data Crunching, Excel Gurus Gone Wild, and Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel. He writes monthly Excel columns for Strategic Finance magazine.
He has been awarded the MVP in Excel for 10 years by Microsoft.
He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show.
His has produced over 2000 episodes of his daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel.
Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial
analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company automates Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers over 30,000 questions a year – for free – for
readers all over the world.

Reviews

[Bill Jelen]

It is possible to coax Excel into creating a good looking chart. This book will get you through the arcana of figuring out how to override Excel's default settings to produce what you need.