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Professionally Designed
Excel Charts & Tables
 

"It's better to look good than to feel good, and you look mahvelous, simply mahvelous."
--Comedian Billy Crystal imitating Fernando Lamas on Saturday Night Live in 1985.

Like Billy Crystal's well-known routine, Excel was launched in 1985. First introduced for the Macintosh, Excel didn't have a PC version until 1989.

When Excel for the PC was ready to go, I was writing columns about spreadsheets in several national magazines. So Microsoft invited me to their campus to learn all about Excel Version 2.2. During my afternoon with the developers, Billy Crystal's lines kept running through my head:

"You look mahvelous, simply mahvelous!"

I was a financial-management guy, so this might seem like a strange reaction. But you see, my primary job was to help managers better understand business performance. That's why I loved Excel's new Graphical User Interface (GUI). Because it would make my reports and presentations look "mahvelous" it could make them faster and easier to read, and, well...more important.

But I had a problem...I knew nothing about graphical design. I had no idea how to use Excel's new GUI to create better reports for managers.

So I started to clip examples of good displays from magazines and newspapers, and save them in a swipe-file collection. Then, when I had a reporting idea for a chart or table, I'd swipe a design idea from one of those clippings and try to duplicate it in Excel.

I still add to my swipe files; I probably have thousands of clippings.

And I've built up quite a stash of Excel displays, some of which you can see above. In various reports and stages of completion, I've got column plots, line plots, dot plots, trellis ("panel") displays, and other chart types. I've got big charts and little charts. I've got single charts, multiple charts, and full-page layouts. Some chart figures include a lot of text, some include very little text. And I also have professionally designed tables, and experimental designs for Excel report pages.

But at this point, most of my Excel charts and other tables are gathering digital dust on my hard drive. So I decided to search them out, dust them off, complete them as necessary, document them, and share them with you.

Maintain Your Own Swipe-File Collection
Of High-Quality Excel Charts and Tables
To Use in Reports and Presentations

Twice a month, I'll email you another set of files. Each new set will contain at least three files: a version for New Excel, a version for Classic Excel, and a PDF file with several pages of documentation.

These swipe files are the only source available for a growing collection of professionally designed Excel charts and tables. Here are just a few ways you can use them

• Excel--Learn new Excel techniques. Use them to spark ideas for new displays. Expand your ideas of what's possible to do in Excel. Save time when you create new charts.
   
• Word--Add magazine-quality charts and tables to your documents.
   
• PowerPoint--Show professionally designed charts and tables in your presentations.
   
• HTML--Add great-looking images of Excel charts and tables to your web pages.

Because I'm including files for both versions of Excel, you'll be certain to get a file you can use...both now and in the future. (If you've recently upgraded to New Excel -- or if you expect to upgrade eventually -- having both versions will help you to learn Excel's new chart features.)
 

Learn From My Documentation

When you first subscribe, you'll receive a "Getting Started" PDF file that explains how to use your swipe files with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and HTML.

Also, each set of files includes additional documentation. I'll keep these pages short, because I want to make each set of files quick and easy to use. But even though it's short, the documentation is important for several reasons.

First, it provides quick training. If there's something important about the substance of a display...or if I use a special trick to make the display work...or if a chart requires special settings...or if there's some limitation to the display...I'll tell you. I'll also provide quick information about how to change the display to fit your needs. 

Second, the documentation will give you a better idea of what's possible to do in Excel, both visually and technically. Soon, your charts and tables will start to look more professional even if you only skim the documentation and displays when you receive them.

Third, the documentation is designed so you can print the first page and put it in a binder. Then, when you need ideas for displaying data, you quickly can flip through your binder and find what you need. (I'm also including an Excel file that contains images of your swipe files. So you'll have two quick ways to find what you need.)
 

Here's How My Swipe File Subscription Works

When you subscribe, I'll charge a one-time administrative fee of $1.00 (which is needed to set up your credit card) and immediately send your first set of Charley's Swipe Files, with the Getting Started documentation. I'll send your second set fifteen days later.

If you like your files and you want to continue with your subscription, you do nothing. If you want to cancel your subscription, just send me an email message with that request.

Thirty days after your order, I'll charge your credit card for the files.

The process repeats itself every 30 days. That is, you pay only after you've received two more sets of swipe files; and you can cancel at any time.
 

These Files Are a HUGE Value!

I was originally going to charge a premium price for this service. Here's why...

• You'll learn more about Excel charts and formatting by playing with my many swipe files than you will by sitting through Excel training classes that cost hundreds of dollars.
   
• You'll significantly improve the quality of the your Excel reports, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and HTML figures.
   
• You'll save time. Rather than working to make your ordinary Excel charts and tables look decent, you'll find professional designs in my swipe files, and then SWIPE them!
   
• You'll impress managers, customers, and clients with the professional appearance of your work.
   
• The magazine clippings I've accumulated over twenty years are unique and irreplaceable. It's impossible for you to get Excel files based on those clippings from any other source.
   
• Unlike all my other products, I'm including files for both versions of Excel in one package. So you're getting two subscriptions for the price of one!
   
• You're licensed to use my swipe files at work and at home. So you're getting two MORE subscriptions for the price of one!
   
• If you have clients, you probably can find ways to offer billable services by combining one or more of these files and your clients' data.
   
• If you hired me to create just one of these files for your company, I'd charge at least $500. But you'll receive 24 per year!
   
• Each set includes workbooks for both versions of Excel. If you were to buy them individually, you'd pay an average of more than $50 for two sets. But when you subscribe, you pay only about one-fourth that price!

In fact, these files offer so much value that I plan to raises prices after this introductory offer expires.
 

Introductory Price
For the First 1000 Lucky Subscribers

I want to make sure that my current customers have the opportunity to subscribe to this unique service. And I don't want the price to be an issue. So I'm making the introductory price very low in two ways.

(If you've just discovered ExcelUser.com, you should know that I recently emailed my customers about this offer. So you're lucky to visit when you did.)

First, the introductory price is only $12.95 USD per month, which is a discount of about 75% off the full price.

Second, the subscription will be price-protected until at least 2013. That is, it will remain fixed at $12.95, even if inflation skyrockets.

In fact, this is such a great price that I'm limiting this introductory offer to the first 1000 subscribers.
 

Special Introductory Bonus:
Custom Figure Conversion to Excel

Do you know of a chart or table with a high-quality design you'd like to use in a report or presentation? Scan the figure, or copy its link, and then email it to me.

When figures arrive, I'll create Excel versions of the ones I like and add them to the queue of files ready to send to subscribers. So the sooner you order, the sooner I'll look at the figures you send me, and the sooner you'll receive the Excel version of your figure as part of your subscription.

Honestly, there's no way that I can set up Excel versions of all charts and tables I receive. But I'll definitely consider all files that the first 1000 subscribers send me, and I'll use as many as I can.

But if you're not among the first 1000 lucky subscribers, there's very little chance that I'll see any figures you send.
 

Order Now, or Miss Out

The time to act is now. Only the first 1000 lucky subscribers will be able to take advantage of this great offer, and it could sell out within days. Here's why...

...I've emailed more than 30,000 customers and newsletter subscribers about this offer.

...Many recipients work for large firms with many employees. If only a few of them email this page's URL to other Excel, Word, and PowerPoint users in their firm -- which they all should if they want an inexpensive way to improve their company's presentations -- the 1000-order limit could be reached VERY quickly.

...These swipe files offer a huge value for a very low price.

Don't wait. Get started with Charley's Swipe Files now. Because you don't pay for the files until after you receive them, your only risk is the initial $1.00 administrative fee.