Yet, the results can often be unnecessarily dull to look at. Thankfully, Excel comes with all the built-in tools you need to make your spreadsheets look polished, professional, and pleasing to the eye. Today, this is not just a nice to have but a must-have. By improving your spreadshee...
Creating a nice-looking table in Excel without using merged cells can be achieved by using alternative formatting options and layout techniques. Here are some suggestions to help you create a visually appealing table: Use cell borders: Instead of merging cells, apply different border...
You can always go further, but these easy and fast steps will quickly make your Excel table look better. How to make Excel look nice Starting from a non formatted table, as seen below, you can see there’s a lot to improve. Raw unformatted table First step, apply some Excel table to...
Excel Design Tip 3: WordArt can kill your design WordArt is a nice and flexible feature that has been an addition of Office for years. Many people are comfortable with it. But does it ever look cheesy! Just look at the header image of this article – geeky, no? You know where we agr...
At this point, your flowchart is practically complete—it functions exactly as it should, you just need to make it look nice. If you started from a template, your diagram already has colors and fonts applied. Lucidchart templates are completely customizable, so you can change any of these usi...
Creating a bar chart in Excel has to be one of the easiest of all chart types. It only takes a few simple steps to create one. So let’s do it. The data below represents the viewership of some top TV news channels Nice numbers. But which channel has won the highest viewership?
Bonus: Check out the free lesson on how to make a column chart in Excel How to make a column chart in Excel The data shown below was used to create the column chart above. The data is arranged with the labels in the first column and the values in the second column. Nice and simple...
That may seem a bit complicated, so let's take a look at a sample table to help explain things. The following is an example of a poorly formatted input table:Although this is a perfectly reasonable summary table to create in Excel, it violates the first rule of flat file format: each ...
Let’s take a look at the process for creating a Gantt chart in Excel. If you’re looking for other methods, check out our guides on creating Gantt charts in matplotlib and how to make a Power BI Gantt chart. Step 1: Setting up the data We need a structured dataset before creating ...
To make it look nice, I’ll add the .caption font so that it won’t distract from the menu item. I could also highlight the menu item, but I’ll make it a .title2 font when it is a title with more space. This scenario is a frequent use of the trinary operator. Text("Menu ...