The Secret to Making Hand-Drawn Charts in Excel

Excel charts that are precise but at the same time hand-drawn? Here's a simple Excel trick to get this different drawing look for your charts. Depending on your situation, you may want to add an extra touch to the Excel chart to make it look different.
Maybe your audience is so used to seeing charts, they've stopped to pay attention.
Maybe you're presenting to students and they find charts "boring".
Or perhaps you're creating a draft dashboard that you're presenting to management.
In this video I'll show you a secret trick you can use to easily create such hand-drawn charts that are actually linked to your data. It's ridiculously simple but leaves a lasting impression.

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[LeilaGharani]

Just a note if your sketched option is greyed out: There was a bug a few months back in one of the Office updates that took away the sketched option. It came back in the more recent updates. You'll have to be patient until you get the next update and it'll come back.

[guido-hillmann]

I immediately tried it out in PowerPoint. Only frames, no filling. With the animation "wheel" and the effect option "one by one" I get a very nice effect. It almost looks like it was drawn. Thank you Leila!

[onwedavid]

Anytime I open your videos, I just get to learn new things always
Thumbs up.

[ericac]

Kudos to that student and thanks for relaying the information!

[ExcelStore]

Спасибо за понятный и доступный материал

[eyeforafrika]

I am extremely intimidated by Excel, but watching your videos makes me look forward to trying new ideas. This type-written chart is amazing. I hope to incorporate it with my doctoral research. Thanks so much, Leila!

[rsudakar]

Interesting, simple but powerful. Thanks for sharing.

[cherylfobear]

Using it for my demand v. capacity dashboard right now! :) Love it, thank you!

[chh]

Thursday's w/Leila ... always a nice way to start the day ... ☕🍪

At the 5:20 mark Leila asks for a 'Use' case.

Candidly, I'm not really a fan ... other than 'edgy', what's the real purpose? ... I didn't 'get it', i.e. Forward To The Past???

But just as Leila was finishing up the video a thought crossed my mind; Use the 'Hand Drawn Charts' option for "Draft" numbers only. Frequently, financial models go through a number of iterations over a period of time before the 'Final' is prepared, approved and released. Whether it is during a group presentation, or a private review, the reader will know at a quick glance whether the results are 'Draft' or 'Final' numbers i.e. Hand Drawn means 'not ready for prime time' ... yet. Just a thought ... 🤔

Once again ... a feature I would have NEVER found on my own, or even considered. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍

[amitjain]

It is awesome trick to give someone personalised hand written notes experience..thanks for sharing

[robertgutierrez]

Leila, muchas gracias por el excelente contenido, felcitaciones

[TestTest-pfqp]

Thank for the tip, the result is nice. It is only available for insiders users, so I'll will try it when it is out for everyone

[quirogan]

Thank you! You and your team are amazing!!!

[ismailwayne]

Thank you Leila....n the student too. This is really cool 😎

[GABSIAN]

Impressive explanation as always
Thanks Leila

[visuss]

Hand drawn animations techniques are quite interesting as some how we get quickly connected. That area should be explored more. Thanks a lot !👏

[Thomasdegaard]

Thanks for sharing.
Tip: You could also use a pattern fill fx on the bars to make it look even more hand drawn

[vijayarjunwadkar]

Great idea Leila! This will definitely give an innovative touch to presentation, so thank you for sharing! You always make us comfortable learning techniques with your unique teaching style! 🙂

[zuhairalmutawa]

Thank you Leila, it was new great idea as unseal.

[asadasaam]

Love your videos... this is easy and fun