PC Pro blog » excel 2003 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs Blogging in the real world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A plea: abandon Excel 2003 graphs http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/09/19/a-plea-abandon-excel-2003-graphs/ http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/09/19/a-plea-abandon-excel-2003-graphs/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:31:39 +0000 Tim Danton http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=3297 I’m writing this from the Budapest World Congress Centre, at Acer’s grandiose and beautifully presented Global Press Conference 2008. It’s a chance for the company to set out its strategy to over 200 journalists, to essentially show off.

So it’s perhaps surprising that it’s still using what I wholly believe to be the world’s worst graphing tool: Excel 2003.

The original version in lovely Excel 2003

Above is one of the slides they’ve just shown us, and as you can see it’s all good news for Acer. 

But it looks rubbish. Now I’m not claiming to be an Excel genius or indeed a presentation expert, but this is what I knocked up in Excel 2007 based on its far superior new chart templates.

The more professional Excel 2007 version

This may seem a minor point – it is a minor point – but any company that uses Excel 2003 to produce its graphs needs to think about what those shoddy-looking images do to their company image too.

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