1. Customers are most interested in mobile access, email storage and ease of setup
Features ranked “very important” (scale of 1-100)
Mumblers
Remove gridlines (select + delete)
Y-axis font smaller and more grey
Y-axis fewer increments (right click – Format Axis – Axis Options – Major Unit)
Y-axis remove trailing zeroes (eg. 10.0%) - Format Axis – Number – Category: (Number or Decimal) – Decimal Places: 0
X-axis font smaller and more grey (ONLY IF IT’S AN ORDINAL SCALE)
// Chunking
Reduce the gap width between bars – right click any bar – Format Data Series – Gap Width reduce to 30% to 50%
Sort data (NOT ALPHABETICAL)
// Picture & Wallpaper
Turn all the bars grey
Highlight the important bars with darker color
If possible, move the important bars further to the left and higher on the slide
// Split-Attention Effect
Don’t make bars unnecessarily long
Consider deleting the y-axis and adding the data labels directly onto the bars (right click – Add data labels – inside end)

2. Seattle sales spiked in May and September due to locally-run promotions
Sales ($USD Millions)
// Mumblers
Make gridlines light grey
Y-axis font smaller and more grey
Y-axis fewer increments (right click – Format Axis – Axis Options – Major Unit)
Y-axis remove trailing zeroes (eg. 10.0%) - Format Axis – Number – Category: (Number or Decimal) – Decimal Places: 0
X-axis font smaller and more grey (ONLY IF IT’S AN ORDINAL SCALE)
// Split-Attention Effect
Delete the legend on the right
Create text labels next to each line
Use the same color for the line and the text label
// Chunking
Limit your linen graph to only 4 colors
If you have more than 4 lines, color the other lines gray – they need to be readable but not obnoxiously large
OR, use similar colors for lines that are part of the same group (eg. black for European countries, red for North American countries)
// Picture & Wallpaper
Use thicker lines, darker colors for the lines that you want to draw attention to
Also make that text label larger and more bold
Keep all the other lines thinner and lighter color
Consider using annotations to bring even more attention to that line, or data points on that line (eg. add data label to specific points, arrows, annotated text pointing to certain data points

3. 58% sales from North America and APAC
// Split-Attention Effect
Delete the legend on the right
Integrate the legend into each pie slice (right click – Add data labels THEN right-click a data label – Format Data Labels – check “Category Names”
// Chunking
Use no more than 4 colors on a pie chart
Turn all the pie slices grey or some other neutral color (click on pie – Format – Shape Fill – grey)
Also keep the white outlines around the slices (click on pie – Format – Shape Outline – white)
Add color only to the pie slices that are important
Group similar pie slices (eg. European countries) with the same color, or different shades of the same color
// Picture & Wallpaper
Use dark colors, warm colors on the important slices
Use lighter, cooler colors on the less important slices
Use larger and bold text for the category and data label on the important slices
Consider orienting the pie counter-clockwise, to move the important slices into the optical center

4. Training Delivered To date
Curriculum
Title
Worldwide
Europe
Planned
Funded by HQ
Funded by Field
Conducts
Students
Eval Score
Presenting
EP Boot Camp 1 7 39
4.64 4 38
4.6 2
EP Boot Camp 2 72
4.83 1 18
4.9
Advanced EP 5 47
4.35 16
4.5 3
Delivery Skills 76
4.41
Handling QA 6 12
4.44 22 NA
Leadership
Situational Leadership 36
4.24 13
Delegation 44
4.93 20
Negotiation Skills 33
4.73 11
4.76
Conflict Mgmt
N/A
// Mumblers
Remove all horizontal and vertical lines from the table
Remove all color from the table, including color in the column headers and alternating bands of color in the table
Consider adding a light neutral color for the column headers, and add a modest line to separate the column headers from the table
Consider making the column header text smaller, lighter and italic. It just needs to be readable, not obnoxiously large
Add a light neutral line every 3-4 rows in the table, to help the eye find its way across many columns of data
// Chunking
Look for natural clusters in the rows. Separate them using lines or space or very light color. Add a large bold label for each group
Look for natural clusters in the columns. Separate them using lines or space or very light color. Add a large bold label for each group
// Split-Attention Effect
Don’t leave a lot of trapped white space between the row header (first column of each row) and the data. Make that column more narrow or else right align that text to move it closer to the data
Consider repeating the column headers halfway through the table, or at the bottom of the table, to simplify lookup for the bottom rows of data
// Picture & Wallpaper
Use color to highlight the important cell or cells. Just a light color is all you need
Consider making the text in the important cells darker and larger
Try to move the important rows higher on the table, and further left on the table, toward the optical center