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Excel 2007 Practice: Adding Data Labels to a Pie Chart

Monday, October 27th, 2008

This project starts with the file made in Create a Quick & Easy Pie Chart and continues with Change Color and Explode a Pie Chart. This practice is about Legends and Data Labels, which are both chart features that help identify the "slices" in the pie chart. In a default Excel ...

Excel 2007 Practice: Create a Worksheet with Dates & Days

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Here's the premise: you want to create a class attendance worksheet in Excel. The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from August 26 to October 14, 2008. The worksheet should have vertical headings with a Tuesday / Thursday date series, where the month and day displays (like 26-Aug, 28-Aug, or 8/26, ...

Excel 2007: How to Create a Custom Fill Series

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

If you frequently have to type in a list of names, cities, locations, anything really, you can save that list and use the fill option to quickly generate the list. You do have to type in one of the names in the list to start the fill action. Click the ...

Excel 2007: How to Keep Column or Row Headings Always Onscreen

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

When working with a large worksheet in Excel, it’s often necessary to keep the row or column headings onscreen while working so you can see what you’re working with as you scroll down-screen. You can do this by Freezing Panes in Excel. The only catch is in knowing how to ...