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Excel Charts

Stop Making Ugly Excel Charts

Beginner ⏱ 9 hours 📚 50 lessons 🌐 en 🏆 Certificate 📅 Last updated May 2026

1 students enrolled

Created by Leila Gharani

Learn the charting techniques that make your data pop. Bar, line, combo—all covered in this practical course.

1 section • 50 lectures • 9h total length

  • Excel Charts & Graphs: Learn the Basics for a Quick Start 14 min
  • How to Create a DYNAMIC Map Chart With Drop-Down (works with ANY Excel version) 18 min
  • How to Quickly Make a Gantt Chart in Excel 11 min
  • How to Make a Gantt Chart in Excel with Progress Bars (actual, planned & percentage completed) 17 min
  • Project Plan in Excel with Gantt Chart (Plan, Actual & Progress in ONE VIEW) 16 min
  • How to Create Panel Charts in Excel | Matrix or Panel Graph in Excel 11 min
  • How to Create Dynamic Series Labels in Excel 6 min
  • Create a Dynamic Budget vs. Actuals Chart in Excel 3 min
  • 3 Tips for Impressive Excel Charts 5 min
  • How to Improve your Charts & Tables in Excel for Better Communication 4 min
  • Visualize Data Geographically in Excel with Dynamic Bubble Charts 8 min
  • Don't Use Pie Charts! Use THIS Instead. 12 min
  • Best Practice to Create Tables for Financial Reporting in Excel 3 min
  • Make Your Excel Data Pop Using Symbols to Highlight Excel Data 8 min
  • How to Use Conditional Formatting to Make Your Data Stand Out 4 min
  • Excel Variance Charts: Actual to Previous Year or Budget Comparisons 14 min
  • How to Create Variance Charts in Excel with Percentage Change (simple & uncommon technique) 12 min
  • How to Create Dynamic Variance Charts with Arrows | Show Change to Previous Year / Budget 10 min
  • How to Add Total Values to Stacked Chart in Excel 5 min
  • How to Insert Dynamic Labels Inside Stacked Column Charts in Excel 9 min
  • How To Show Percentages in Stacked Excel Charts (in addition to values) 12 min
  • How to Add Series Lines / Connectors to Stacked Column Charts in Excel 5 min
  • Skip Dates in Excel Charts (ignore gaps and blank cells) 5 min
  • Automatically Skip Blanks in Excel Charts with Formulas (ignore gaps in Excel chart axis) 22 min
  • How to Not Show Zero Values in Excel Line Chart (prevent drop to zero & dynamic legend positioning) 12 min
  • Excel Dynamic Chart with Drop down List (column graph with average line) 8 min
  • 3 REALLY Useful Excel Chart Tips You May Have Missed 6 min
  • The Hidden Way to Create Clustered Stacked Charts in Excel 11 min
  • How to Make a Step Chart in Excel (fully dynamic & easy to read) 29 min
  • Easiest Way to Create Dynamic Step Charts with Error Bars 19 min
  • Show Progress Using an Image in Excel Chart (WordArt Infochart with % completion) 12 min
  • Turning Basic Excel into Dynamic Word Art Masterpieces with VBA 20 min
  • Pictogram Charts in Excel: Add Icons to Bars [Rounded + Dynamic] 16 min
  • Excel Conditional Bar Chart with Drop-down & Icons (This Chick's Trouble for Excel Hash) 13 min
  • How to Create a Funnel Chart in Excel (Sales funnel based on Excel data) 6 min
  • Highlight Max & Min Values in an Excel Line Chart (Conditional Formatting in Charts) 9 min
  • Charting Survey Results in Excel (Visualize Employee Satisfaction results) 11 min
  • Progress Circle Chart in Excel as NEVER seen before! 11 min
  • Five Tips for Optimal Excel Chart Design 5 min
  • Simple Excel Trick to Conditionally Format Your Bar Charts 10 min
  • How To Create A Histogram in Excel (& change the bin size) 4 min
  • Progress Chart: Excel Clustered Column Chart with Overlapping Bars 12 min
  • Effortlessly Create Dynamic Charts in Excel: New Feature Alert! 10 min
  • The Secret to Making Hand-Drawn Charts in Excel 6 min
  • How to Make a Graph Change Color Based on Value | Conditionally Formatting Charts 2 min
  • Create an Excel Dashboard to Easily Track Budget and Actuals with Variances 22 min
  • Make Beautiful Excel Charts Like The Economist (file included) 19 min
  • Stop Making Default Charts! Create McKinsey Visuals in 90s 11 min
  • The Excel Timeline chart you'll actually keep using (free template included) 11 min
  • Stop Using Pie Charts (Do THIS Instead) 9 min
Leila Gharani

Leila Gharani

YouTube Channel

👥 1 students 📚 2 courses ► YouTube channel

Excel. Power Query. Copilot. ChatGPT. Power BI. PowerPoint.
You use them every day to automate Excel and your work - so why not actually master them?

I’ll show you how to:
✔️Automate the stuff that drives you nuts
✔️ Spend less time on grunt work, more time on wow work
✔️ Build reports that look good AND actually make sense

What You’ll Learn Here:
✔️ Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, VBA, Google Sheets & more
✔️ AI-powered Excel & the future of work
✔️ Data & finance skills that give you an edge

I don’t just teach this stuff - I use it daily.
My goal? To help you think differently about the tools you already have, so you can work faster, and with confidence.

🎓 My background: MA in economics / Economist / Business Consultant / Accounting Systems Expert / Oracle & SAP implementations (for Finance) / Teacher & Microsoft MVP

💡 400,000+ professionals have taken my courses at XelPlus - because working smarter just makes sense.
Join here 👉 https://www.xelplus.com/courses/

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