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Excel 2016 for Windows What’s New

Six New Chart Types Tell Me
The six new chart types can The Tell Me dialog box allows users to enter words and phrases
be accessed from the related to what you want
Charts grouping on the to do next to quickly
Figure 1 - New Chart Types Insert tab. access features or
actions. It can also be
Treemap Graph used to look up helpful
Creates a hierarchical view information related to
of your data and makes it the topic. It is located on
easy to spot patterns. the Menu bar, above the Figure 8 - Tell Me Box
ribbon.
Smart Lookup
Select a word, right-
click it, and choose
Smart Lookup from the
Figure 2 - Treemap Graph
menu. The Insights pane
Sunburst Chart will display definitions,
Ideal for displaying hierarchical articles, and more.
data, with the innermost circle as Figure 8 - Smart Lookup
the top of the hierarchy.
Figure 3 - Sunburst Chart
PivotTable Enhancements
Waterfall Chart  Automatic relationship detection
Shows a running total as  Creating, editing, and deleting custom measure
values are added or  Automatic time grouping
subtracted, showing how an  PivotChart drill-down buttons
initial value is affected.  Search in the PivotTable
 Smart rename
Figure 4 - Waterfall Chart
 Multiple usability improvements

Histogram
Displays the frequencies within a
distribution.
Figure 5 - Histogram Chart
Pareto (Combo)
Highlights the biggest
factors in a data set, with
both columns sorted in
descending order and a
line representing the
cumulative total
percentage. Figure 6 - Pareto Chart

Box & Whisker

Shows distribution of data into
quartiles, highlighting the mean
and outliers.

Figure 10 - Some PivotTable Enhancements

Figure 7 - Box & Whisker Chart
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