Going, going, gone! Yes, it’s true that the Chart Wizard was removed from the product when we shipped Excel 2007, and we didn’t bring it back in Excel 2010.

For those of you upgrading from Excel 97-2003, this may come as a big shock. The Chart Wizard provided a useful four-step process that you could simply follow to create a chart with a finishing touch. Unfortunately, it didn’t make sense to update the Chart Wizard to incorporate the many changes that were made when the chart engine was rebuilt for Excel 2007. Instead, the ribbon became the new place to go for all your charting needs.

Keep reading to learn how easy it is to create and work with charts in Excel 2010.

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Why do we still buy $12 calendars even though finding what day it is as simple as looking at your computer or phone? It's not new to create your own, but I wanted to show you how simply you can do it with a free template at Office Online. You can download the template mentioned here and the calendar I made here . All templates for 2011 calendars--over 100--can be found at Office.com . <div><img alt="DCSIMG" id="DCSIMG" width="1" height="1" src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcsygm2gb10000kf9xm7kfvub_9p1t...

People often ask how to copy Outlook signatures between multiple computers. In this post, I’ll describe how to accomplish that task using a little known keyboard shortcut. 1. On the Tools menu, click Options , and select the Mail Format tab 2. Hold down <ctrl> key while clicking the Signatures… button 3. The folder containing your signatures will open 4. Copy all of the files and folders in the Signatures folder to the location where you back up your files (e.g. flash drive, external...

Hello Office 2010 beta users! My name is Michael Affronti and I'm a Program Manager on the Outlook product team here in Redmond. We now have the opportunity to talk with all of you about Outlook 2010 and the amazing features we've been hard at work on over the last two years! Over the next couple months we'll be revealing a bunch of the changes and updates in Outlook 2010 right here on the Outlook Team Blog. Let's start with your Inbox in Outlook 2010. For a long, long time your Inbox has been a...

Quick Introduction A couple of weeks ago we posted on bibliographies and citation, and it quickly became the most commented post we've ever had. Looks like we left a lot of questions unanswered! As a result, I'm going to create a series of posts which will (hopefully) address some of the questionsaround how to create a custom bibliography style in Word 2007. For starters, here are a few important directories to know about: The bibliography sources you create are all listed in the following file:...

Pranav Mistry , a grad student at MIT's Media Lab and former UX researcher for Microsoft, has developed a wearable device that "enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data." That sounds dry, but once you watch the 9-minute demo that TED.com just rolled out, which features Lab leader Pattie Maes, you'll know why Mistry's work is getting a whole lot of buzz. Maes ends her talk with the phrase "ultimate brain implant." Take a look: You can read a full interview with Pranav...

This morning we became aware of a Twitter campaign run from the website http://fixoutlook.org . This campaign is intended to provide Microsoft with feedback about our decision to continue to use Microsoft Word for composing and displaying e-mail in the upcoming release of Microsoft Outlook 2010. The Email Standards Project , which developed the website that promotes the current Twitter campaign, is backed by the maker of “email marketing campaign” software . First, while we don’t yet have a broadly...

Outlook 2003 introduced integration with SharePoint, allowing you to see some SharePoint information (like calendars) in Outlook alongside your personal information. In Outlook 2007, we made this a whole lot better. Here we’ll focus on the new Document Library syncing capability that allows you to easily access, preview, search, and edit your SharePoint document libraries in Outlook. To begin, let’s start by syncing an existing Document Library to Outlook: 1. First, navigate to a SharePoint...

Today’s author: Sam Radakovitz, a program manager on the Excel team that enjoys creating VBA applications in Excel. Back in early 2005, Excel 2007 was under development, the Backstreet Boys released a new album, and I took a weekend out to create a date picker add-in for Excel. The add-in was fun to write, not super duper fancy code, but it got the job done and helped me learn about the various Excel events and Excel’s add-in model. I pushed it up on the web, got some feedback and made...

Some of the most frequently asked questions that we receive are about Excel's IF function. In this previously published Q&A, a writer on the Excel team answers some of the most common questions. 

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