Excel 2016 introduces several new charts (Treemap, Waterfall, Histogram) and capabilities for analyzing, cleaning, and sharing data. Key features include improved data connectivity and transformation tools, one-click forecasting, centralized data loss prevention policies, cross-device compatibility, 3D mapping functionality, enhanced PivotTable analysis, and direct publishing to Power BI. The new charts provide additional options for visualizing hierarchical, financial, distribution, and categorical data.

1. WHAT’S NEW IN
EXCEL 2016

2. New Charts
(Tree Map, Waterfall & Histogram)
New Charts
(Tree Map, Waterfall & Histogram)
New Charts
(Tree Map, Waterfall & Histogram)
Get & Transform
New Charts
(Tree Map, Waterfall & Histogram)
One-Click Forecasting
Data Loss Prevention
One-Click Forecasting
Office Anywhere
Get & Transform
One-Click Forecasting
Data Loss Prevention
Office Anywhere
New Analysis Capabilities
(Relationship Detection, Time Grouping,
Drill Down & Field Searching)
Publish to Power BI
New Charts
(Tree Map, Waterfall & Histogram)
Get & Transform Get & Transform
Tell Me
Key Office Enhancements
(Simplified Sharing & Insights)
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3D Maps

3. Excel now comes with a set of
new modern charts, like Waterfall
and Treemap, that give you more
ways to explore and tell
compelling stories with your
business data.
* New charts include Waterfall, Treemap, Sunburst,
Box & Whisker, Histogram and Pareto

4. Use Excel to connect to and view
all the data around you.
Take advantage of a broad range
of data sources or use web-like
searching to discover the data
shared across your corporation.
Clean, shape and combine data
with intuitive options that can be
reused and reordered anytime.
Refresh your connections with
one click to keep your data up-to-
date.

5. With Excel, create rich and
detailed forecast charts based on
your data series with one click.
Based on industry standard
Exponential Smoothing (ETS)
algorithm.
For more in-depth analysis, use
intuitive options to adjust common
forecast parameters, like
seasonality and confidence
intervals.

6. IT admins can centrally create,
manage and enforce policies for
content authoring and document
sharing in Word, Excel, or
PowerPoint. End users will see
policy tips when the apps detect a
potential policy violation.

7. Enjoy full fidelity viewing and
editing of Office documents
across Windows, Android, and
Apple devices. Review, edit,
analyze, and present with a
consistent, familiar user
experience optimized across
device types.

8. Find the right command, fast. Just
type the word and Tell Me takes
you directly to the feature you
need.

9. Power Map, the popular 3D
geospatial visualization add-in, is
now native to the Excel
experience and has been
renamed "3D Maps".
Discover patterns in data based
on location, time and geopolitical
context and create cinematic
tours that can be shared easily.

10. New analysis improvements in
Excel bring more ease and
efficiency to your PivotTable and
PivotChart experiences.
Features include automatic time
grouping, field searching,
automatic relationship detection,
inline field renaming and more!

11. Prepare, perform and now,
publish your data analysis without
ever leaving Excel. Publish
directly to your team’s Power BI
collaboration space in just one-
click.

12. Simplified sharing lets you quickly
and easily invite others to review
or edit using the new Share
button located on the Ribbon.
The sharing pane lets you see
who has access to a given
document, invite others or change
access permissions and see who
is currently working within the
document. You can even instant
message or call with Skype for
Business.

13. Smart Lookup lets you explore
and fact-check terms contained in
your workbook without leaving
Excel.
The feature is powered by Bing
and uses the selected text and
surrounding content to give you
contextually relevant results.

14. The Treemap chart provides a
colorful hierarchical view of your
data and an easy way to compare
different levels of categorization.

15. With a Waterfall chart, you can
quickly illustrate the line items in
your financial data and get a clear
picture of how each item is
impacting your bottom line.

16. Commonly used in statistics, a
histogram automatically displays
the frequencies within a
distribution. For example, use the
chart to display the distribution of
the book prices in inventory to
ensure you are meeting your
customer’s needs.

17. The Sunburst chart shows the full
hierarchy of the groups to provide
deeper analysis capabilities. With
a Sunburst chart, it’s easy to see
the largest contributing segments
within a hierarchy of multiple
levels.

18. Using the Pareto chart, you can
discover which opportunities in
your data provide the largest
impact. The chart automatically
sorts the frequency of category-
based data, like customer service
request issues, and shows the
additive contributions of each
issue.

19. The Box & Whisker chart shows
the distribution of your data in a
simple format. For deeper
analysis, this chart goes further
by providing key insights about
the distribution in one view,
including range, quartiles, mean
and outliers. And you get all of
this information with a few clicks.