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Creating a timeline chart in Excel 2013

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 08:43 |  Robert MacLean

My last two posts have both contained an timeline chart in them which I create in Microsoft Excel 2013. Since it is a fairly awesome trick, I have created a short 10min video showing how you can do it too!

imageWhile this in itself is pretty awesome to do, because it is Microsoft Office – you can easily copy and paste it into PowerPoint for presentations. Then by simply changing the Effect Options ► Sequence to By Category you can get a great effect where each event pops in one by one.

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Stephanie's picture

Hi there,

thank you for this tutorial. Do you know how to edit the data series labels in Excel 2011?

thanks
steph

Submitted by Stephanie on Sat, 05/04/2013 - 00:28.

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