You can now create and edit charts directly in Excel and move them to PowerPoint while keeping links to the underlying data. Excel offers pre-formatted chart types for easy use such as bar charts and stacked bar charts. Enhanced sorting options allow you to focus your audience on key messages without changing the original data. Additional chart customization features include adding comparison lines to highlight differences, growth lines to show compound annual growth rates, and gridlines or vertical lines to improve readability.

1. 6 New Things You Can Do

2. Create and Edit Charts in Excel
You can create and edit a chart in Excel and move charts between Excel and
PowerPoint while retaining links to your data.

3. A collection of quick launch charts pre-formatted for easy use.
Use Pre-Formatted Charts
Bar Mekko with Data Row and Set Bar Width Stacked Bar with Growth Line and CAGR column

4. Enhanced Sorting
A full range of sorting options allow you to focus your audience on the key
message without adjusting your underlying data.

5. Segment Comparison Lines
You can add segment comparison lines to your charts. In a stacked bar, it
highlights differences between locations in the stack and in a cluster bar it
shows the change between 2 bars.

6. CAGR Growth Line
You can add a CAGR growth line to easily show the overall CAGR and series
CAGR on the chart.
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7. Gridlines and Vertical Lines
You can add gridlines or vertical lines to make a chart easier to read.