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Creating accessible color-independent charts in Excel 2007
I forgot to mention that you ought to browse through all of the articles on
Stephen's site, because there are lots of good ones. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ wrote in message ... Thanks. I meant to say the article that you referred to. I've already created a link to it for my students with Stephen Few's name mentioned as the author. --Dilip On Mar 7, 12:11 am, "Jon Peltier" wrote: That's not my article, it's Stephen Few's. I'm slowly developing similar and complementary content for my blog. So many people write about effective charting practices, but not many direct their attentions at Excel charting. Charley Kyd (http://exceluser.com) is one of a handful, and I'm trying to help fill in gaps. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. -http://PeltierTech.com _______ wrote in message ... Thanks, Jon, for the pointer to your detailed article! I also have a background in ease of use, so appreciate the perspective. I am going to add a pointer to your article to my class notes to share with future students. In class, I do warn students to use charts effectively and point out that one can mislead especially with 3D charts. Thanks! Dilip On Feb 28, 8:23 am, "Jon Peltier" wrote: A priori it would seem that pie charts would be good for looking at parts of the whole, but they're not all that effective at it. May I direct you to this article by Stephen Few: Save the Pies for Desserthttp://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf As an educator, you should be concerned that your students learn not only how to make certain chart types, but also how to make effective chart types. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. -http://PeltierTech.com _______ wrote in message ... Thanks, Jon. I like using pie charts when looking at fractionating a whole. Plus I teach and want to make sure that my students can create charts of different types and not rely on color. Thanks! Dilip On Feb 27, 2:12 pm, "Jon Peltier" wrote: If you use a bar or column chart, you won't need different colors, because each point will have its label along the category axis. You will make it easier to compare each point's value (pies are poor for this). - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. -http://PeltierTech.com _______ wrote in message ... I can't seem to figure out (it was easy in earlier versions!) how to take pie charts (or other types of charts) and make them independent of color. I don't mind if the chart uses color, but I don't want to rely on color to make sure that people of varying sensitivities to color or a black and white photocopy doesn't put the user of the chart at a disadvantage. How can I have my different pie slices not just a different color, but in a different cross-hatch or other fill? Thanks, and sorry if this is obvious!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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