Excel offers many different tools for formatting your charts, but the key to success is choosing which ones to use. In this guide, I'll share some of my favorite chart-formatting hints, hopefully ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Graphs in Microsoft Excel typically chart time on the horizontal axis. Time is the independent variable in most relationships and dependent variables appear on the vertical axis. Some charts, though, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. If you create a lot of charts in Excel, you should definitely be creating and using your own chart templates. It helps keep the look of your charts consistent and will ...

Whether working with a team or alone, you need to maintain a project’s schedule. One tool that can keep you on track is a burndown chart created in Microsoft Excel. These are line charts that compare ...

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 ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall and talk about how they could be used with your data. We covered Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & ...

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, ...

An curved arrow pointing right. If you create a lot of charts in Excel, you should definitely be creating and using your own chart templates. It helps keep the look of your charts consistent and will ...