Combo charts in Excel are a powerful way to combine different types of charts into one. You can merge bar and column charts, line charts, and even pie charts to create a single, cohesive visual ...

Flash Fill, introduced to Microsoft Excel in 2013, was a time-saving game changer. It recognizes patterns in your data, and uses those patterns to suggest ways to automatically fill in the rest of ...

It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

How to Highlight Intervals in Graphs in Excel. The interval between the gridlines in an Excel chart is typically blank, but you can highlight the intervals using an alternating pattern by changing ...

A treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of data and makes it easy to spot patterns. Learn how to create a treemap chart in Excel.

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in ...

When the relationship between the charted entities is less important than the individual entities, try using these two chart techniques to highlight important details in Microsoft Excel.

Learn how to create Wall Street Journal-style charts in Excel, including line charts, radar charts, and heatmaps, with this guide by Kenji ...