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Overview In Excel 2007, the ability to directly resize or reposition points on the chart was deprecated. This feature was sometimes referred to as "Graphical Goal Seek." For example, in Excel 2003 a user could click on a data point in a column chart twice
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I’m back from my vacation (boy, Seattle is really gorgeous during the summer!). Thanks to Sam Radakovitz (Sam Rad) for filling in for me while I was out. And thanks to Ben Rampson and Robin Wakefield for putting together this final post on charting improvements
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Thanks to Ben Rampson for putting this post together. In today’s article I will outline some of the significant new chart improvements that impact performance. In Office 2007 the graphics engine used by Office Charts was replaced with one that could support
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Over the next three posts this blog will cover some of the charting changes that have been made in Office 2010, many of which are the direct result of customer feedback. As part of the Office 2007 release we overhauled charting throughout Office; however
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Today's author, Robin Wakefield, a Program Manager on the Excel team, discusses charts. As a new program manager in Excel one of my first tasks was to understand what problems users encounter when building professional charts in Excel. I defined professional
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Today's author, Scott Ruble, a Program Manager on the Excel team, is seeking feedback on a new prototype for building charts. When Office 2007 was released, one of the strong pieces of feedback was Excel needs to do a better job guiding users in the proper
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Today's author, Helen Hosein, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Certain shadows created in Excel 2003 look different Excel 2007. In particular, you might notice that your old cell shadows, as well as shadows on things like Chart Titles might look a
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Today's author, Ben Rampson, a Program Manager on the Excel team. Customers who author charts in presentations and reports often spend a significant amount of effort modifying their charts to get them looking just the way they want. While the new Chart
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Today's author: Danny Khen, a program manager who works on both the Excel and Excel Services teams. What is this about? Office 2007 introduced new default file formats – Open XML. Excel, Word and PowerPoint take advantage of them. One of the nicest things
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Today’s Author: Scott Ruble, a lead program manager on the Excel team who focuses on the area of data visualization. Scott is going to discuss how to create an intraday time series chart. Periodically, users need to create a chart where the data occurs
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Today’s Author: Eric Patterson, a program manager on the Excel team. Eric is going to discuss applying pattern fills to chart data points and includes a sample add-in for this purpose. Overview In Excel 2007, the interface for applying Pattern fills to
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Today’s author: Katherine Fifer , an intern on the Excel team. Katherine is just wrapping up a summer of fantastic work, and today she is going to discuss how to create a combo chart in Excel 2007. Often it is useful to create charts which compare different
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Last week, in response to my post on charting, Harlan pointed at a few Economist charts as examples of professional charts. Today, I spent a few minutes with Excel 2007 trying to create a similar chart. I thought I would share the results. The chart in
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Over the past few months, when I have posted information about charting in Office 2007, there has been plenty of feedback and discussion about the work presented. Today, I wanted to spend a bit of time addressing some of that feedback. When I read over
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Whenever we talk to users about PivotCharts, the first request we hear is that they behave more like regular charts. In previous versions, PivotCharts had very limited layout and formatting options. In addition, if you refreshed the PivotTable that the
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