Simple column charts can hide the truth of your data, but box plots tell the full story.

Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

Excel charts containing large amounts of data prevent readers for easily reading small segments. For example, if a chart tracks your company's daily sales over the course of several years, you cannot ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you can ...

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never used ...

You have prepared a presentation using 12 months of sales data for your client, Dynamo Co. After everyone is gathered, the client’s CEO says she has more recent sales figures available and asks ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

on a worksheet, but the same values may look awkward in an Excel chart. By default, charts use the same number format as the worksheet’s original data series. The good news is you do not have to ...

Excel won't display hidden data in a chart unless you flip the switch. Learn which option controls this behavior. By default, Excel displays only visible data in a chart. Consequently, if you hide ...