Microsoft Excel makes great charts, but often they’re not eye-pleasing. Learn how to change formats to yield a professional-looking chart.

Click on the plot area of the chart. The plot area is the part of the graph that shows the data; you can click anywhere in this section to highlight the whole plot. This will highlight just the ...

Click the chart plot area and then click the Design chart tab. Then, click the Add Chart Element button, hover the cursor over Data Labels, and select Inside Base.

You can lock the position of a chart in Excel spreadsheet so that it doesn't move or resize when you include more columns and change cell width. Learn how!

This example shows how to fill the area between two plot lines by concatenating two data sets into one to form a polygon with the data points. It uses a SYMBOL statement to specify a pattern to fill ...