Microsoft introduced many new features in Excel 2010. Pivot Table Slicers, Sparklines and improved graphical objects. Power Pivot Add-in is introduced in 2010 version of MS Exce. Limitations of Excel 2010: No change in number of Rows and Columns of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Now Excel 2010 is limited to 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns. . Watch our video and step by step guide below on Excel 2010 Power Query with a free downloadable Excel workbook to practice. Watch on YouTube and give it a thumbs up Power Query is a new add-in that was introduced in Excel 2013 by Microsoft and was that popular that they made it backward compatible with Excel 2010.

1. Ms Excel 2010 File Have The Extension
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In this article we will learn how we can make waterfall chart in Microsoft Excel 2010.

Ms Excel 2010 File Have The Extension

This chart is also known as the flying bricks chart or as the bridge chart. It’s used for understanding how an initial value is affected by a series of intermediate positive or negative values.

You can use this chart to show the revenue and expenditure of a business or even personal accounts.

Let’s take an example and understand how and where we can use this chart and how it will perform if we present the information in Water Fall Chart.

We have a data set where we have the revenue, cost of sales, etc. Now let’s insert another column before column B and enter “Remaining Profit” as the title.

This is calculated as follows

• First we minus cost of sales from revenue earned.
• So 2 million minus 4 hundred thousand gives us 1.6 million.
• We get the same figure as the gross profit.
• Then from this figure, we keep deducting each cost – management costs, cost of sales, operating costs, etc.
• So we minus 240000, 180000, 300000 and 400000 from 1600000 to get our net profit of 480000.

Now we just need to plot this and we will come up with an interesting looking waterfall chart.

• We need to start with a stacked column chart and then alter it to suit our needs.
• So we select our data, then go to Insert tab and select stacked column chart.

• Remove the legend as we do not require it.

Ms Excel 2010 Online

• Now click on one of the blue columns which will result in all the blue ones being selected.
• Right click and select Format Data series. Click on the Fill & Line option and select No fill under Fill. Under Series options, change the gap width to 0%.

It’s almost done. Just a few things are left. Change the fill color of revenue earned, gross profit and net profit to a green. Now you can change the scale, add data labels, etc and format it further.

Ms Excel 2010 Window

That’s it, a simple waterfall chart. This can be really useful when you want to include it in your reports and show data from a different angle.

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