CleanCharts: Free Addon Tool for Excel That Makes Your Charts More Visually Appealing
CleanCharts is a great free addon for Microsoft Excel. CleanCharts fixes Excel charts to make them a lot more visually appealing.
The “Clean Charts” tool turns hard-to-read Excel default charts into Tufte-compliant wonderwerks in a single click. Here’s what it does:
- Removes “chart-junk” (the contrast-reducing light grey background on most Excel charts, extraneous lines
- Formats the axes with easy to read numeric formats (22000 becomes “22k”)
- Changes series colors to an optimally chosen set that are designed for maximum contrast and readability
- Removes 3D from the chart. 3D charts introduce distortions that make it hard for people to understand your numbers.
- Fixes axis scaling problems.
- Fixes font and marker sizes to make them readable if you have resized your chart
To try Clean Charts and install it, download both these files into the same directory. Then open the Clean Charts Installer.xls file with macros turned on. Follow the instructions inside the installer.
Go to the plugin home page to download the latest version.
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