Waterfall chart
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Plots data as a series of color-coded, positive and negative floating columns.

Also known as a bridge chart, shows the impact of additions and subtractions to an initial value.

Useful for visually displaying running totals.


Sunburst chart
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Plots data within a hierarchical structure.

Segments are sized proportionally based on values.

Effective at showing how a category is broken into its contributing pieces.


OFFSET function
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Return a reference that is a specified number of rows and columns from a starting point

=OFFSET(reference, rows, cols, [height], [width])


Stock (Volume, Open, High, Low, Close) chart
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Plots fluctuations in stock prices or other data.

Uses 5 series of values, in order: volume, open, high, low, close.

Data needs to be organized in the correct order.


AVERAGEIF function
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Calculate the average of numbers in a range that meet specific criteria.

AVERAGEIF(range, criteria, [average_range])


ISLOGICAL function
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Return the logical value TRUE if the cell contains either a TRUE or FALSE statement.

=ISLOGICAL(value)


YEAR, MONTH, DAY functions
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Return the year, month or day component of a date

=YEAR(serial_number), =MONTH(serial_number), =DAY(serial_number)


2D Line chart
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Plots data in order and joins with a 2D line.

Track changes or trends over time.

3D option is also available.


100 Stacked Bar chart
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Plots data in horizontal rows stacked by category to represent 100%.

Make comparisons between discrete categories.

2D and 3D options are available.


REPT function
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Repeat a specific text string by a number of instances.

REPT(text, number_times)


Map
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Plots data across geographical regions onto a map.

Can be used with countries/regions, states, counties or postal codes.

Links to online geography data types to convert categories into recognized values.


Box & Whisper chart
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Plots data into quartiles, highlighting the mean, median and outliers.

Indicates whether a distribution is skewed or whether there are outliers in the data set.

Use with multiple data sets which relate to each other in some way.


100 Stacked Column chart
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Plots data in vertical columns stacked by category to represent 100%.

Emphasizes the contribution of two or more data series to the whole.

2D and 3D options are available.


MID function
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Extract characters from within a text string.

MID(text, start_num, num_chars), MIDB(text, start_num, num_bytes)


100 Stacked Line chart
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Plots data in order and joins with lines stacked by category to represent 100%.

Track changes or trends over time.

Stacked Line option is also available.


Combo Column Line chart
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Plots data in vertical columns and a line.

Make comparisons between discrete categories.

Enables charting of values from diverse data sets.


3D Line chart
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Plots data in order and joins with a 3D line.

Track changes or trends over time.

2D option is also available.


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