Comments on: High-Low Line Alternatives in Excel Charts

By: Kim_Office_Team

Kim_Office_Team — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:16:21 +0000

Thanks, Jon. And feel free to start up conversations and add your thoughts to the community, too!

Cheers!
Kim
Microsoft Office Outreach

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:33:38 +0000

Hi Kim – Anyone should feel free to add a link on the Facebook page to any of these articles.

By: Kim_Office_Team

Kim_Office_Team — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:45:15 +0000

Hi Jon,

Thanks so much for sharing this great tip. I know the Excel team would really love it if you shared your expertise with the rest of the Excel community at the Excel page on Facebook. Users are regularly looking for tips and tricks, and this would be a great one! You can join the community, here: http://www.facebook.com/office.

Thanks again for sharing this great post with your readers! Great stuff!

Cheers,
Kim
Microsoft Office Outreach

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:14:22 +0000

David - Thanks for the coffee. Your chart is a great example of the use of a shaded band to Show Uncertainty in Predictions with Shaded Bands.

By: DMurphy

DMurphy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:01:52 +0000

Thanks Jon for this article as it helped me resolve a visualisation I needed to complete. One of the company’s problems is accuracy of the Forecasting process – basically, every month countries in the group provide a 3-month forecast on Revenue by Activity and, to date, this has often been way off the Actual results. Here is the link to how I have been able to complete it:

We use Essbase as a repository for our Finance reporting, so the grey area is where I can get the user to retrieve the slice of data they want to look at (Country, Activity, Account…). I then do some calcs to get the data into the right shape for the chart (blue area) and the chart is automatically refreshed for their requested slice – Voila! as they say in these parts.

Enjoy the coffee – well worth it!