Overview:
Turn raw numbers into compelling visual stories! Join Microsoft Excel expert Ray for an engaging webinar where you'll master professional charting techniques that make your data speak volumes. Whether you're preparing reports, presentations, or dashboards, this session will give you the skills to create impactful charts with confidence.
What You'll Master:
- Data Setup for Success
- Prepare your data perfectly for flawless charting
- Avoid common data layout mistakes that ruin visuals
- Chart Creation Fundamentals
- Build embedded charts directly in your worksheet
- Generate standalone charts on new sheets in seconds
- Know when to use each approach for maximum impact
- Chart Customization & Layout
- Resize and reposition charts like a pro
- Apply professional layouts with one click
- Switch between row/column orientation for optimal viewing
- Advanced Chart Elements
- Add and customize titles, labels, and legends
- Enhance charts with trendlines and data markers
- Format every element for polished presentations
Perfect For: Business analysts, financial professionals, project managers, researchers, and anyone who needs to present data persuasively to stakeholders, teams, or clients.
Why should you Attend:
- Business professionals creating reports
- Analysts visualizing complex data
- Students and academics presenting research
- Anyone who wants to make their Excel data more persuasive
Why You Won't Want to Miss This:
- Live demonstrations of chart creation from start to finish
- Time-saving shortcuts the pros use
- Before/after examples showing transformation of basic charts
- Q&A session with Ray to solve your specific challenges
Take your data visualization skills to the next level!
Why Learn from Ray?
With 12+ years of corporate data visualization experience, Ray knows what makes charts work in real boardrooms. His practical, no-nonsense approach cuts through complexity to deliver immediately applicable techniques.
Ray's webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include a professional Learning Guide with practical "hands-on" exercise files, providing a superior learning and knowledge retention experience for attendees.
- Harness the full potential of your software investment
- Time-Efficient Power Learning with Focused Topics
- Practical Hands-On Skill Enhancement with High Retention
- Supporting Resources, Learning Guide and Practice Files
- Improved Productivity, Quality and Error Minimisation
- Up-to-Date Current Knowledge Transfer
- Professional Development Recognised for Career Advancement
- Interactive Experience Through Chat and Live Interaction
- Rapid Return on Investment
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Correct Data Setup for Charting
- Chart and Graph Essentials
- Create a New embedded Chart from Scratch
- Create a chart on a new sheet in seconds
- Compare Chart on separate Sheet Vs Embedded Chart on same sheet
- Resize, Reposition and Delete a Chart
- Chart Layouts
- Switch Row and Column Orientation
- Add and Manage Chart Elements
Who Will Benefit:
- Anyone using Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Office from fields including Government, Business, Education, Accounting, Banking, Finance, Investment, Bookkeeping, Consulting, Tourism, Hospitality etc
Instructor:
Ray Evans blends a professional, easy-going style with a strong grasp of adult learning-shown in his broad mix of classroom, seminar, workshop, and live-online delivery, plus the practical materials that support them.
Backed by Microsoft certifications, he teaches more than 2,500 topics across Artificial Intelligence, Copilot, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Excel, Access, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Publisher.
He also holds qualifications in Frontline Management, Accounting, Training and Assessment, and is certified in Six Sigma business-improvement methodology.
Since 1990, Ray has trained over 40,000 students, business owners, and executives and authored extensive training and procedural documents, complex reports, and engaging web content-demonstrating strong communication skills and exceptional knowledge transfer.
To provide the best learning and knowledge retention experience for attendees, Ray’s unique and engaging webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include:
A comprehensive step-by-step Learning Guide
Demonstrations and practical exercises
Exercise files; and
Productivity techniques