If you have read just about anything I’ve written about Excel, you’ll know I loathe gridlines in tables. When you’re presenting data, it’s very important to reduce the noise and hone in on actionable signals. Remove Noise From Your Chart’s Background If you want a primer, you can find this resource from Microsoft for the PC and this one for the Mac. I’m not going to cover the basics of creating charts in this post.
Having covered all the basics of how to make tabular data tell a story using custom cell formatting and conditional formatting for both static tables and pivot tables, we’re now going to jump into the really fun stuff: charting data out in Excel.
