Leila Gharani – Business Charts in Excel

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CREATE EXCEL CHARTS THAT GET YOU NOTICED
Feel like your Excel skills are falling behind?

Tired of making Excel reports that no one notices?

Imagine making Excel charts as powerful as those in The Economist and McKinsey, without getting stuck in slow, manual routines.

We get it – creating professional charts in Excel can eat up your time.

That’s exactly why our course focuses on MORE than creating charts that get noticed.

It teaches you formulas to make your reports dynamic so you can free up your valuable time for what matters.

Course Highlights:

• 8.5 hours of video lessons
• 60+ practice files & 50+ ready-to-use templates
• Quick Guide eBook on Excel Charts
• BONUS Cheat Sheets for fast learning
• English Closed Captions (created by a professional typist)

Creating Engaging Charts in Excel Is Time-Consuming

If you lack the right techniques…

• You’ll struggle to make charts that explain your data clearly.
• Waste precious time on manual updates.
• Professional reports seem out of reach in a fast-paced business world.

Plus Excel keeps adding new features making it hard to keep up. There seem to be many powerful tools. But you’re stuck in the basics.

We don’t want that for you.

Creating professional Excel charts should be easy.

We designed this course so you can:

• Create Excel charts that exceed your manager’s expectations.
• Upgrade your skills with the latest Excel charting techniques.
• Master Excel formulas for dynamic, auto-updating charts.
• Select the right chart type, ensuring your data stands out.
• Present complex data simply, just like the experts at McKinsey and The Economist.

These charts don’t only look great but also save you time. You get to focus on what really matters.

Turn Data into Reports That Capture Every Colleague’s Attention
Join 400,000+ learners who’ve upgraded their Excel skills with us.

We know how challenging it can be to turn complex data into impactful charts in Excel.

Especially when your hard work goes unnoticed.

That’s why we designed our course to teach you quick methods for creating standout charts.

Visuals that are engaging, informative and at the same time minimalistic.

They’re rewarding to make. Rewarding to present. You’ll learn formulas to automate the making of your charts. So you don’t have to worry about adjusting your source data layout to fit your chart.

You’ll save a ton of time AND stand out for your skills. 

Your 8-Step Roadmap to Chart Mastery 
If Excel has ever made you doubt your abilities, you’re not alone. Go through the steps in the course and soon you’ll find yourself mastering more than just charts.

From Our Students
Success Stories Across Professions

This course provides you with a solid base for creating outstanding charts in Excel that really make a difference in understanding your data. And not only that, it makes creating charts fun!

You really learn how to use Excel’s chart-building tools in a creative way.

The step-by-step approach from Leila is extremely helpful. It gives you the feeling: Yeah, I can do that! And when you do the exercises and challenges, it all really comes to life.

So before you know it, you have learned a lot reasonably effortlessly.

After participating in all of Leila’s courses over the years, that doesn’t come as a surprise because that’s what Leila’s courses are always guaranteed to give you.
Roger Hendriks, CEO

Turn Your Data into Engaging Stories
Stop wasting time with ineffective charts. Instead start making impactful visuals that get noticed.

But let’s face it, Excel can be tough and take up too much of your time.

We believe it should be easy to make charts that look good and tell a story. That’s why our course gives you all the shortcuts and support you need.

Sample charts you’ll learn to create

And there’s more to it than just looks.

Once you create an engaging chart, you want it to be responsive and automatically update. Because if not, your whole day gets swallowed up by trying to keep your charts and reports current.

Creating engaging AND self-updating charts is a skill few possess.

The best part?

In this course you’ll learn BOTH skills.

You’ll learn to make charts that update automatically with new data. No more wasting hours manually updating graphs for your monthly reports or presentations. Think of the extra time you’ll have for other work or to simply enjoy a well-deserved break!

I’m Leila.
Your Instructor.
Each month, I hop on a special video call with the Microsoft team. This is one of the perks of being a Microsoft MVP. They fill us in on all the latest features coming down the pipeline. Excel has been changing a lot. I understand the frustration of keeping up with new Excel features.

Recognized by Forbes and others, my courses aim to boost your data analysis and visualization skills, focusing on automation to save time.

I relied heavily on Excel in my corporate days in finance, IT and project management. I’ve mastered creating powerful automations and turned challenges into strengths.

Join me to improve your Excel skills to the top level, without the manual hassle. It’ll be fun!

“But Leila, Why Learn Business Charts from You?” 

You have plenty of options for learning about Excel Charts, so why enroll in our new course?

For starters, as with all our courses, you’ll benefit from our XelPlus 3-pillars of teaching.

Pillar 1– We Speak Plain English

We don’t use jargon or “smart sounding” words when simple words will do. We start with the easy stuff to get you hooked. Then, you can go deeper.

We don’t scare you away by showing you the nerdy details right out of the gate.

Pillar 2 – We Give You Real World Examples

Business Charts are meant to help decision making and solve real world problems.

“What is this data trying to tell us?”

“What are we missing?”

“What should we do after this meeting?”

Some teachers are afraid to go there. They feel safe with theory.

Not us. We come from the trenches of industry.

We don’t shy away from real world examples. We lean into them.

Pillar 3 – We Show You the Big Picture

I’m the type who needs to see how everything fits together.

After all, nothing exists in a silo.

Some courses only show you how to create various chart types in Excel. Some only teach you how to transform raw data for visualization. Others show you how to create beautiful reports.

In our course we teach you both preparing the data and how to avoid manual updates. And yes, we show you how to create stunning visuals in Excel.

Our course teaches you not just to make great-looking charts and graphs but also to master Excel’s shortcuts and functions that speed up your work.

Here’s Your Learning Path

Introduction

• How to Succeed with This Course
• Download Files & Templates
• Looking for a Specific Topic? Use the Transporter!

Section 1: Excel Chart Basics

• How to Pick the Right Chart (Answer these questions)
• Creating Excel Charts: Data Structure, Multiple Series
• Improving Charts: Adding Elements & Formatting
• Essential Practices for Creating Standout Visuals
• Quiz – Chart Basics
• Key Takeaways Chart Basics

Section 2: Mastering Dynamic Charts in Excel

• Excel Tables & Slicers for Dynamic Charts
• Last 12 Months Dynamic Charts (No more Manual Updates!)
• Connecting Charts to a Drop-down
• Exercise: Switching Units in Charts with a Drop-Down
• Dynamic Chart Titles: Add Clarity with Real-time Updates
• Adding Context with Text Boxes and Labels like The Economist
• Challenge: Interactive Chart with Slicer and Dynamic Text
• Automatic Sorting in Charts for Better Reporting
• Positioning Axis Labels to Avoid Overlap with Negative Values
• PivotCharts with Slicers and Timelines
• PivotTable Data to Power Standard Charts with Slicers
• Key Takeaways Dynamic Charts

Section 3: Comparing Values

• Creating Excel Charts for Impactful Data Comparisons
• Column Chart Essentials: Simplifying for Impact
• Conditionally Highlight Columns (Top & Bottom Values)
• Advanced Column Charts: Auto-Updates & Dynamic Titles
• Creative Column Chart Formatting: Beyond the Basics
• 🔥 Challenge: Dropdown-Driven Conditional Highlights
• McKinsey-Style Column Charts
• DYNAMIC McKinsey-Style Column Charts
• Compact Bar Chart with a Simple Function
• McKinsey’s Lollipop Chart for Easy Comparison
• Enhance Bar Charts with a Vertical Comparison Line
• Dumbbell Charts: The Economist and BBC Style
• 💪 Exercise Pack to Sharpen Your Skills ✨
• 📝 Key Takeaways Comparing Values

Section 4: Showing Composition

• Charts to Show Composition
• Adding Totals to a Stacked Chart
• Aligning Series Labels in Stacked Charts
• Pie Chart & Doughnut Charts
• Upgrading from Pie Charts: Sorted Bars with Extras
• Treemaps to Explore Hierarchies
• McKinsey’s Waffle Chart
• 🔥 Challenge: Stacked BAR Chart with Totals
• 🤔 Quiz – Showing Composition
• 📝 Key Takeaways Showing Composition

Section 5: Understanding Trends and Patterns

• Captivating Line Charts with Simple Tweaks
• Avoid Drop to Zero in Line Charts
• Dynamic Series Label Integration for Multiple Line Series
• Dynamic Data Labels: Frequency Selected from Drop-down
• Forward-Looking Charts: Unifying Multiple Series into One
• Economist-Style Multi-Line Slope Chart
• Small Multiples Chart (Panel Chart) for Side-by-side Comparison
• Excel Sparklines: Quick Visual Trends
• 💪 Exercise Pack to Sharpen Your Skills ✨ 
• 🤔 Quiz – Understanding Trends
• 📝 Key Takeaways Understanding Trends

Section 6: Displaying Change (Variance, Growth, Before/After)

• Designing Impactful Variance Charts in Excel
• Building Connected Color-Coded Bar Variance Charts
• McKinsey-Style Lollipop Variance Charts
• 🔥 Challenge: Create a Column Lollipop Variance Chart
• 💪 Exercise: Column Variance Chart
• Using Color-Coded Arrows in Charts
• Waterfall Chart to Visualize Cumulative Impact 
• 📝 Key Takeaways Displaying Change

Section 7: Presenting Tables in Excel

• How to Best Present Data in a Table
• Conditionally Change Row & Font Color
• Subtle Color Coding for Key Changes
• Use Bars and Arrows in Tables for Easier Readability
• 💪 Exercise: Table Formatting with Data Bars
• 🤔 Quiz – Presenting Tables
• 📝 Key Takeaways Presenting Tables

Bonus: More Elite Chart Design inspired by McKinsey & The Economist

• Heat Map: McKinsey-Style
• Category Chart: The Economist-Style
• In-Cell Bar Chart with Comments 

Q&A Resource Hub

🔐 Answer Vault
 
Wrapping Up

🙌 YOU DID IT!

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