Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...

Have you ever come across a Wall Street Journal chart and thought, “Wow, I wish I could create something that polished”? Whether you’re preparing for a big presentation, crafting a report, or simply ...

Excel has this useful feature that probably most people completely overlook—the Quick Analysis menu. If you've been manually creating charts, writing formulas for totals, or spending time formatting ...

Among its many features, Microsoft Excel enables you to incorporate charts, providing a way to add visual appeal to your business reports. Each of Excel's 12 chart types has different features that ...

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 2007 supports a variety of chart types to create a combination chart and help your viewers see the differences between two or more data series. For example, one data series in a line ...

Microsoft Excel doesn’t require any introduction, does it? If you are new to Excel, it may seem overwhelming at first, but ...

You may have used Excel for years without delving into Styles (or stylesheets), but they can make work easier and faster—and more visually appealing. In this feature, we’re going to go over Cell ...

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

Q. My supervisor wants me to include more data visualizations in my projects. Do you have any suggestions? A. Data visualization transforms raw data into graphical representations, making complex ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a hierarchical view of the target data and how the sections of that hierarchy compare in size to each other. The main branches of the tree are displayed ...