Serious stuff, more or less. These examples only fit marginally to our topic – but we, nevertheless, wanted to share them with you.

Table with Ham?

Source: Menu from the Beach Club Restaurant in Port Antratx, Spain in Juli 2012.

(Thanks to A.H.)

Marathon analysis by Jörg Decker

This visualization shows the course of the 2010 Metro Marathon broken down into six sections.
The shift in placement can be easily observed in the transition from one moment to the next.

Moreover, age groups or country of origin are differentiated by color.

Merry Christmas 2008
So that our seminar participants see that our Excel Tricks can be put to use for more practical things... Here you can download the Excel file (in German).

Bow and Arrow

Here you can learn what advanced Excel users are able to do - in this case, however, not without programming. Please don't aim too low and hit the mark!

Source: www.wolfcom.ca

Soccer

This example clearly shows why we emphasize the power of the scatter chart (scattergram) in the seminar "Excel Charts 2": The image on the left shows impressively what all is possible with Excel. The soccer ball can also turn on two axes, the corresponding file can be downloaded here (German). And all of this was achieved without VBA..! This chart was created by Klaus Kühnlein for the page Excelformeln.de. I thank him for giving me permission to present this example here. RH

McMillan

"How not to use PowerPoint". A terrific parody of the practical use of PowerPoint on youtube...

And here and here are two more of his humorous presentations.

Power Point – Yet Missed-the-Point

The screen supports the projector beam.

The projected tables with a color scheme,

Are way too many here to count,

And the speech becomes mere background sound

The speaker’s hooked up to his machines.

No matter what his babbling means,

No matter what he’s presenting here,

You see it - and it’s in your ear.

I’ll either listen or just stare -

My concentration just isn’t there.

I’m left here with a vague impression

Despite a lengthy PowerPoint session.

If the effect is but synthetic,

The results are something quite pathetic.

The opposite of PowerPoint,

If anything, it’s ‘Missed-the-Point.’