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Excel Charts Masterclass for Small Businesses

Master Excel Charts to Communicate Your Message Clearly.

Created byDavid Fortin
4.6
(97 reviews)
BeginnerUpdated Nov 19, 2024
Excel Charts Masterclass for Small Businesses

What You'll Learn

check_circleLearn to communicate a clear message using Excel charts by curating information, removing unnecessary elements, and ensuring comprehension within 5 seconds
check_circleRecognize when to use Pie Charts, Bar Charts, or Line Charts in real-life professional contexts.
check_circleApply best practices for creating charts to enhance business understanding and facilitate effective business discussions.
check_circleCreate basic charts, including clustered bar charts, stacked bar charts, and bar charts with totals in Microsoft Excel.
check_circleCreate basic pie charts, doughnut charts, and pie-of-pie charts in Microsoft Excel.
check_circleCreate pivot charts by pivoting data to group and display specific data in chart format. Learn to easily update the data set.

About This Course

Struggling to create Excel charts that actually communicate the right message? You're not alone. Most professionals find Excel charting frustrating, often unsure where to click or how to make their data truly stand out. This masterclass will change that.

  • Design Professional Charts: Master techniques like color gradients, data labels, and adjusting data series to create visually compelling charts.
  • Communicate Clearly: Learn to convey the right message by curating data, removing clutter, and ensuring your charts are understood within 5 seconds.
  • Choose the Right Chart: Know when to use Pie, Bar, or Line Charts in real-world scenarios to best represent your data.
  • Apply Best Practices: Create charts that enhance business understanding, making your presentations and discussions more effective.
  • Create Basic Charts: From clustered bar charts to pie-of-pie charts, you'll build foundational chart types with ease.

Your Instructor

David Fortin
David Fortin

Chartered Professional Accountant & Microsoft MVP

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David Fortin is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and a 2024 Microsoft MVP. He runs Piggy Bank Accountant, a YouTube channel where he shares practical insights on Excel and Microsoft Copilot. With a background in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for a SaaS startup, David was instrumental in raising $30 million in venture capital funding and played a key role in the company’s successful exit, valued at hundreds of millions. Known for his dynamic and energetic personality, David is all about helping people, which he does through his online courses on Excel and Copilot. What sets David apart is his ability to make learning fun and engaging, bringing a unique energy to his videos that resonates with his audience.

Credit Information

Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.

If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.

What Students Are Saying

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