Monday, April 10, 2023

Highlight High and Low Sales on Bar Chart


A Bar Chart can be the most common type of chart you show. Why not spice things up by leading your audience to certain parts of the chart. If you’re charting sales or productivity numbers, you may want to focus on the high numbers as well as the low numbers.
The highest and lowest sales can be highlighted on a bar chart by using different colors for the bars. For example, the highest sales can be represented by a green bar, while the lowest sales can be represented by a orangish bar. This will help to make the data more visually appealing and easier to understand.

Monday, April 3, 2023

Find Errors in Your Excel Formulas


You’ve written formulas, thought it was all set and hit the Enter key and BAM! Excel gives you an error. Short formulas are easy to troubleshoot but long ones, especially when they reference multiple cells are a sometimes a pain to figure out. You could go through the formula look at this cell and that cell, clicking through it but there’s some tools in Excel that will help make it easier and keep you from smashing your head when you don’t know where that #Value error is coming from. Now, these tools show up in the most appropriate Ribbon tab called Formula. It’s the Evaluate formula and error checking commands and they will make your excel life easier.

Monday, March 27, 2023

Create Risk Assessment Chart - Google Sheets


Do you like risks? Most people would say No...as long as it’s a calculated risk. But do you know what is risky? Not identifying risks and putting some rating on them. This is especially true if you’re in an organization and project managing activities. Don’t be that guy or gal that does that. Let your people know what kind of risks may happen to your projects. What’s better is if you can categorize them too. Like with Low, Medium, and High. What you need is a risk assessment matrix and a nice free tool to create this is Google Sheets. I mentioned putting the Formula so here it is with the table row data starting in Row 9 and column C & D with respectively Priority and Impact headers: =IF(OR(AND(C9 = "Low", D9 = "Low"), AND(D9 = "Medium", C9 = "Low"), AND(C9 = "Medium", D9 = "Low")), "Low", IF(OR(AND(C9 = "Medium", D9 = "Medium"), AND(D9 = "High", C9 = "Low"), AND(C9 = "High", D9 = "Low")), "Medium", IF(OR(AND(C9 = "High", D9 = "High"), AND(D9 = "High", C9 = "Medium"), AND(C9 = "High", D9 = "Medium")), "High")))