There is a list of Excel books on my Contextures website, and it hasn’t been updated recently. Today, I checked Amazon, to see what new and exciting Excel books had been released, so I could start adding them to the list.
New Excel Book
There’s a book – Excel 2010 Made Simple, by Abbott Katz — with a release date of May 31, 2011, from Apress, the publisher of my pivot table books.
Amazon lists the book as “not yet released”, but they show the cover, which you can see below.
Excel Charts Chapter
One of the chapters is on Excel charts, and the book blurb promises that you’ll learn “How to create colorful, meaningful charts”.
I hope the cover chart was selected by someone in the Apress marketing department, and not the author!
Missing Books
I’ll be updating the list of Excel books over the next few weeks, so if you know of any recent books that are missing from the list, please let me know, so I can include them. Thanks!
Make a Simple Pie Chart
And if you do need to make a pie chart in Excel, for a business report, or for the cover of your next book, keep it simple!
This video shows how to make a basic pie chart in Excel, then add formatting, labels, and other features. Use your Excel charting powers for good, not evil!
Excel Chart Links
If you want to learn more about Excel chart, but not the 3-D rainbow-coloured kind, check out the tutorials at the following links:
Box Plot Chart (Box and Whisker)
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Jason –
VBA doesn’t let you make charts you couldn’t do manually. The wedges in a 3D pie chart all have to be the same. I guess you could build something with several different charts, each chart having only one visible wedge, but that’s a lot of time to waste to make a totally useless graphic.
Maybe the marketing guys were just using the Homer Simpson strategy. “Ummmm, PIE !!!”
Excel Made Simpson.
“You can’t even make a chart like that in Excel, fortunately.”
Oh I wish that were true Jon. Whilst not a chart it is Smart Art!
Shouldn’t “Smart” be in quotes there, Andy? 🙂
I was thinking more like the t! should be se! 😛
LOL!