Make Beautiful Excel Charts Like The Economist (file included)

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Want to make charts in Excel that look as good as the ones in The Economist magazine? This video shows you how. We cover three types of charts from The Economist: A special type of Bar Chart, Dumbbell Charts (also known as connected dot plot or before after chart), and Color-Coded Tables. These are professional Excel visuals you can add to your corporate presentation. You can also apply these Excel chart techniques to create other charts you come across from The Economist or elsewhere in news magazines or social media.
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00:00 How to Make a Graph in Excel like The Economist Magazine
00:26 Bar Chart
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[@jcdags]

Creating these awesome charts in Excel is great! But, I often find they lose their luster when I transfer to Word, especially tables. How can we successfully transfer tables, especially large ones, from Excel to word without having to reformat them to better fit the page?

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[@marvinallama130]

Dear Ms. Gharani, Good day! I have a question. Is it possible in excel to view data using a drip down list, then edit that data? Example is: Student A has a quiz score of 5 for his first quiz, 10 for his second quiz, then let's say i mistakenly entered 10 but actually it was 9. I hope I said it correctly. English is not my first language. Hoping for a video tutorial reply. Thank you!

[@andrewbgray]

Leila, I'm getting an error message when I try to download the workbook. Is it still available?

[@LeilaGharani]

@@andrewbgray yes. It's still available.

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Never thought I'd be mind-blown by an Excel tutorial, but this is what you just did. Kudos!

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she does this with every tutorial I watched..

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The pinnacle of professionalism and creativity ❤❤

[@mpicht]

30 years as of Feb 1 that I'm using Excel at work. Again, again and again you're bringing new ways of doing things in professional manner and with smart ideas. Stunning. 👍😎

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Blown-away with these Excel Skills! Amazing!

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I never regret watching your videos. Every time I learn something practical!

[@MichelleKC.]

Clear, concise and well explained. Thank you.

[@lijunchen]

These charts will wow the most critical viewers anywhere. Great tutorial with many tricks.

[@rembautimes8808]

I looked at those Economist charts when I was in school and it does look professional and elegant. Thanks for showing how its done. Long live Aptos Narrow , unrolling the shame brought by Calibri

[@kwanpakshing]

the way you used Excel in this video completely changes the way i see Excel - it can do so much more.

[@RobertLugg]

So much content. Had no idea how powerful the array functions have become. Excel has experienced a real rebirth over the past few years.

[@Locomaid]

@Leila Gharani - You blow my mind at least once with EVERY video. Thank you!

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Of course we watch your videos till the end Leila.... We learn so much from them.... Thank you for sharing this!

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This is one of the most impressive videos I've ever watched 🤯

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The pinnacle of professionalism and mentoring 👍🏻👏🏻

[@FutureCommentary1]

Honestly! The Economist for me is the THE best on creating charts, communicating lots of information in a compact way. I'm right now trying to change how we report end of q budgets and variances. This will come in handy.

[@LeilaGharani]

I agree. I'm also a fan of McKinsey charts.

[@spilledgraphics]

@@LeilaGharani I kindly suggest also checking out graphics from The Financial Times + Five Thirty Eight + Washington Post + Wall Street Journal + New York Times....

[@yaxmokwa7612]

I will give it to McKinsey though.

[@FutureCommentary1]

@@yaxmokwa7612 Entirely possible. I don't read McKinsey's reports nearly as often as I read TE as a subscriber.

[@westleyempeigne6541]

That’s amazing what you showed us, ways to work with Excel to get really good looking visuals! Sometimes you don’t know whether you do this in Excel, or you do this in PowerPoint and add objects, etc to make it look nicer, which is a lot manual! Thanks for sharing Leila

[@DreadedOne509]

I've been looking for you my entire professional Excel-user life. This is the content and explanations that suit my learning perfectly. Thank you!

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This is pure gold! thank you so much

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You are simply amazing. I've learnt so much from you and I still am. God bless you.

[@ahsanali50]

Mind blown by 3rd chart lookup values ! Amazing

[@trailcarver3018]

Leila, you are so smart, so concise. You're awesome.

[@elTIRco]

This is the best excel graph and chart tutorial so far. Thanks Ms Excel Professor 😊

[@SpotlightImpact]

Love it! This is one of my favorite ways to make horizontal dumbbells. One thing to mind is If your series have points of switching - blue dots lower and vice versa - I’ve found if you point the difference column to both pos and neg error bars this does the trick! 🎉

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for sharing your tip!

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Thank you Leila, I m always excited to discover the way you trick Excel to get your goal.

[@mcarvalhocarvalho1873]

Words fail to capture the depth of my enthusiasm for this content. Thank you immensely.

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I think I was one of the people who asked for this and as ever Leila smashes it! You make it look so easy, and your videos are a great way to learn!

[@giryilham5892]

I learn from this video for my pitching slides.. thank you so much Leila!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad to hear it. All be best for your pitches. 😊

[@Timeless_Trader]

This is mind blowing. Wow loved these templates. Thank you.

[@faucillon]

Leilani I have to congratulate you. It's been a LOOONG while since I last learned something entirely new in Excel. Your dumbell chart was exactly that, and I'm able to implement it basically as is in my recurrent reporting on a monthly basis. Love it. Props to you for a professional video and have my like.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome! Glad you found something new.

[@MSigs]

It’s really understated in college at every level how needed data visualization skills are across nearly all fields of work. I wish I learned more about excel tools in school and I’m working on my third graduate degree at this point with little to no excel skills taught outside of what I taught myself off KZbin. And I’m in a STEM field.

[@humbalapa]

Leila - another GREAT video... but you make it look so easy, which means I will need to watch this like 50 times before I get it right! Thank you so much for posting this!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@shashankshekhar4441]

This is terrific. I loved how you used xlookup instead of index and match. Thanks for this video.

[@lisafridland]

Your videos are incredible. Thank you!

[@vernacularbarnarchitecture]

I am screaming. Long time follower of this channel and long time subscriber of the economist.

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You are such a great person ... true respects for you personally ..

[@Saad-Sadiq]

Ramadan Mubarak Leila and happy to see you back.

[@ebunokesanjo1617]

I tried 2 of the 3 excel charts and they came out so beautiful. Thanks Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you like them!

[@snehlatasingh7303]

One of the best videos I have recently watched. I wanted to make a lollypop chart but could never do it. Thanks to your simple style of teaching I did it.

[@MJWinters]

truly mindblowing ... i hope one day i can transform this into my work as production controller.

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Love all your videos, thank you very much

[@apoorvasgala]

Excellent Video Leila. I am learning a lot from your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@canirmalchoudhary8173]

Last chart was amazing especially picture in cell.

[@emmanuelle8032]

Wow ! The dumbbel chart though ! Impressive. Thanks so much for sharing such great tips. Such great reportings ahead ;)

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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It's always great to learn from @LeilaGharani Thankful!

[@kuuuyajim]

Amazing as always! I've been using mostly Power BI now for visualization; however, I still keep on checking your channel for new videos/tutorials so I have tricks up my sleeve I can use just in case. 😀 Thank you, Leila! ⭐

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for watching! Hope you found something useful.

[@chrism9037]

Super-useful, thanks Leila! Those charts are great, very clear to understand.

[@LeilaGharani]

Yay, thanks Chris!

[@toddlee933]

Wow, you make it look so easy!

[@kebincui]

Excellent as always 👍

[@arbazahmad7177]

Excellent as always.... Nice, specially the last one.. Thanks for sharing this valuable tips and tricks..

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Awesome content, been learning so much with your content!

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Fantastic content, as always! Your videos never fail to impress me, and I particularly enjoyed this segment. Looking forward to seeing more content like this in the future. Keep up the great work!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad to hear that.

[@christines5430]

This video was perfectly timed and excellent😊! I was working on some new charts today and thinking about how to make them nicer. Thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Perfect! Hope we could inspire you. :)

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So satisfying ❤❤❤❤ learning

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it

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Another thumb up excel tutorial! Thank you Leila

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This is amazing!!

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Wow! Great tutorial!

[@manoharmunipalli6146]

Seriously super cool, thanks Leila

[@rudiklein]

Great video! When you do it, it looks so simple and obvious, but I know it isn't when I try. I love the less is more charts.

[@lea-kc]

Can’t express how great this is! 😍📊

[@rajwoodson]

love the video - and Im a big economist reader, so thank you.

[@mohammadj.shamim9342]

Leila sensei is the best. Actually, a very impressive illustration. I couldn't even think of it. Thank you so much 😊

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much 😀

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I am following you from al most 3 years, always found very quick and help Full Excel tips, which always help me in my daily reporting.

[@LeilaGharani]

That's great to hear! Thanks for your ongoing support.

[@stacy-mariebennett8760]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this.

[@AlanLamb2024]

Thanks Leila I liked the first bar chart but really wanted the category labels automatically/dynamically added if new row(s) were added. My solution was similar to prior content from you, "Excel Clustered Column AND Stacked Combination Chart". The basic idea is to add an additional invisible series that displays the Category labels. Firstly, make the data a proper Table, then create the Bar Chart Copy and Paste the data values a second time to the chart, so there are 4 'segments". Set the original series on the secondary Axis, new series on the primary. Update the (reverse) order for both Primary and Secondary vertical axes. Set the secondary Series Overlap to -100% and Gap Width to 0% Add a label to the series/bar that has been split. Set the Label to show Category Name and position as Inside Base, also you turn off "Wrap text in shape". Change the Fill to No Fill for the secondary axis bars. Thats it, try adding a new row to the table. Hopefully, you'll see the bars and Category labels just add themselves.

[@skrambl]

Thank you for this remarkably clear, succinct, and informative tutorial.

[@LeilaGharani]

You're very welcome!

[@robertgutierrezrodriguez9646]

Leila, muchas gracias por compartir tu conocimiento, una forma muy creativa e inteligente de utilizar el excel

[@Gefionius]

Fantastic!! Thank you

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This is great lesson. I like your teaching very much and your didactic voice. Thanks

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! 😃

[@etutorshop]

Lovely, I didn't know I can bend excel charts like this.

[@eslamfahmy87]

creative as usual... thanks a lot

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Thanks you for this video, that's great!

[@RajeshBhonkiyaTrainer]

always new magic and wonder in every video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alexanderbenson1602]

These are some awesome little tricks to make some fancy graphs!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you found it helpful.

[@soulstrafer]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sudds50]

This is WILD! Thank you!

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

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Wish I could give you more than just 1 like. This is amazing!

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Excellent Leila!, great content as always! 🔝❤

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! 😃

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Fantastic, thank you.

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Great video, thanks.

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Loving this chart explainer - goodbye dull Excel charts hello awesome ones :-)

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Great, Leila!

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[@SlugBrazil]

Amazing as always... Thanks for sharing ❤

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Cheers!

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Excellent as always, thank you

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure!

[@MrToughEnough]

Great video as usual Leila. This ciuld be a very interesting series (the most famous charts)

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Super amazing. Always mind-blowing tutorials and I learn a lot from these. KUDOS

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for watching!

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Quite helpful, thanks.

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Amazing!

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This is amazing...

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This is superb, the way you explain is clear to understand and replicate, you have a gift, and it's been years since I've been following your work on KZbin, and getting better at my job by applying all the knowledge you shared, thank you so much! Keep it up with this amazing work.

[@LeilaGharani]

I really appreciate the kind words. Thank you for your support over the years!

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Once again, an effortless presentation by Prof Leila of excellent content ... leaving me with lots of ideas to pursue ... a nice way to start the day. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you for tuning in so early in the morning!

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It's a habit ... a well engrained habit ... with a cup of hot coffee ... ☕

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Wow! So Awesome! ❤ I have been trying to figure workaround to do this!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

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Thanks for the share.

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Spilled range is a big game changer🎉

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I recently had to create a matrix for some qc and just ended up creating a couple of helper columns. But spilled range is definitely so much better!

[@LeilaGharani]

It sure is!

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Thanks, just leaned new ways to manipulate cells in Excel, not that I’m going to manipulate any Excel cells anytime soon, the information does come in handy! 😊😺🥰👩‍💻⭐️💎

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Amazing!!!! Thanks so much great tips ❤

[@LeilaGharani]

You are so welcome!

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Very nice solution. Also easy to follow. Thanks for sharing.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you liked it.

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Awesome visual presentation though....highly professional and well designed and structured 😊

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much 😀