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week, in response to my post on charting, Harlan pointed at just a few Economist charts as examples of specialist charts. Today, I spent a few minutes with Excel 2007 trying to create a similar chart. I thought I would share the results. chart in question is located here. It is a line chart with a title and some series labels. Here is a screen shot. The Economist web site start with in Excel,Office 2007 Standard Activation, I typed in the data (source: The Economist web site) and inserted a line chart … to enlarge) is what you will see in the beta build when you insert a line chart. to enlarge) you can see, the Excel chart looks similar in composition with respect to good charting technique – there are no graphic effects,Windows 7 Enterprise Key, and the data is emphasized,Office 2010 Standard Activation, axes,Windows 7 Professional Key, tick marks,Windows 7 Professional Product Key, and gridlines have been subdued to allow the data in the plot area to stand out more. Next, I decided to fiddle around with just a few settings to see how hard it would be to get things closer. A couple of clicks to add a title, change where the vertical axis is, and resize the chart a bit and I had something looking very close. to enlarge) one major difference is that the legend is outside the chart, and in the chart plot area next to each series. Again with some more clicks, I removed the legend from the chart and added two text boxes (“OECD” and “Germany”) and positioned them near the appropriate data series. With a number of more clicks, I have something very close. to enlarge) point I am trying to get across here is that our default styles (and many of the other styles we include in Excel) are, I believe, what a lot of people are looking for with respect to “professional” and “effective”. (I know there are features that would make the above easier, and like I said in the previous post, we are planning to continue to work in that area going forward.) Here is what the same chart looks like when turned into a bar chart … again, the focus is on clarity of data. to enlarge) that’s it for today. Download the beta, try the styles, and let us know. As always, feedback welcome.