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Excel 2019 Bible

You're reading from   Excel 2019 Bible The complete guide to Excel 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119514787
Length 1120 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Walkenbach John Walkenbach
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Michael Alexander Michael Alexander
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

1. Cover FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction 3. Part I: Getting Started with Excel 4. Part II: Working with Formulas and Functions 5. Part III: Creating Charts and Other Visualizations 6. Part IV: Managing and Analyzing Data 7. Part V: Understanding Power Pivot and Power Query 8. Part VI: Automating Excel 9. Index
10. End User License Agreement

CHAPTER 23
Visualizing with Custom Number Formats and Shapes

Visualization is the presentation of abstract concepts or data in visual terms through some sort of graphical imagery. A traffic light, for example, is a visualization of the abstract concepts of stop and go.

In the business world, visualizations help us to communicate and process the meaning of data faster than simple tables of numbers. Excel offers business analysts a wide array of features that can be used to add visualizations to dashboards and reports.

In this chapter, you explore some of the formatting techniques that you can leverage to add layers of visualizations and turn your data into meaningful views.

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