Time-Saving Chart Tricks Every Excel User Should Know
Ray Evans
Overview:
Take your Excel charts from basic to brilliant in this power-packed session! Discover how to create more impactful data visualizations by mastering advanced charting techniques that most users never explore.
Learn how to work with dual-axis charts to display different data scales clearly, and bring your charts to life with professional annotations and graphics. We’ll reveal the secrets to stacking images directly in your column charts for stunning visual effects, and show you how to dynamically link Excel charts into Word documents-saving you hours of manual updates.
You’ll also uncover smart ways to visualize sub-totalled data effectively, create compact yet powerful sparkline charts for dashboards, and harness the Quick Analysis tool to generate insights faster than ever. Plus, we’ll cover essential printing techniques to ensure your charts look polished on paper or in presentations.
Whether you’re preparing reports, building dashboards, or presenting data to stakeholders, these professional charting skills will help you work smarter and stand out. Join us to unlock Excel’s full visualization potential!
Why you should Attend:
Ray's webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include a professional Learning Guide with practical "hands-on" exercise files, providing a superior learning and knowledge retention experience for attendees.
- Harness the full potential of your software investment
- Time-Efficient Power Learning with Focused Topics
- Practical Hands-On Skill Enhancement with High Retention
- Supporting Resources, Learning Guide and Practice Files
- Improved Productivity, Quality and Error Minimisation
- Up-to-Date Current Knowledge Transfer
- Professional Development Recognised for Career Advancement
- Interactive Experience Through Chat and Live Interaction
- Rapid Return on Investment
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Insert and Manage a Secondary Chart Axis in Excel
- Add Chart Annotations and Graphics
- Stack Pictures in Excel Column Charts
- Dynamically Link an Excel Chart into MS Word
- How to Chart Sub-Totalled Data
- Create Sparkline Charts
- Quick Analysis Feature
- Excel Chart Printing Essentials and Options
Who Will Benefit:
- Excel users Ready to Elevate their Charting Skills
- Business Professionals Creating Reports
- Analysts Building Dashboards
- Anyone who wants to Present Data more Effectively
Speaker Profile
Ray Evans blends a professional, easy-going style with a strong grasp of adult learning-demonstrated across classroom, seminar, workshop, and live-online delivery, supported by practical, high-retention instructional materials.
Backed by Microsoft certifications, Ray teaches more than 2,500 topics spanning Microsoft Excel, Access, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Publisher-and is one of very few presenters delivering expert-level webinars across all six leading AI cognitive engines: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini and DeepSeek.
He holds qualifications in Frontline Management, Accounting, Training and Assessment and is certified in Six Sigma business-improvement methodology.
Since 1990, Ray has trained over 40,000 students, business owners, and executives, and authored extensive training documentation, complex reports, and engaging web content-consistently demonstrating exceptional communication and knowledge transfer.
Ray's webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include:
A comprehensive step-by-step Learning Guide
Demonstrations and practical exercises
Exercise files; and
Productivity techniques, tips and shortcuts