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 ...

Bar charts are, essentially, just horizontal Column charts and are generally used when the axis labels are exceptionally long.

Select the chart without selecting any particular data series. Go to the 'Layout' tab, under 'Data Labels' select the format you want.<BR><BR>Or did I misunderstand your problem?<BR><BR> (If you ...

In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

Microsoft Excel's quick-format chart and graph features offer a way to instantly convert your data-filled cells into a visual representation such as a pie chart or bar graph.

In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker.

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how.

A Progress Chart is a graphical representation of the degree of completion of work in progress. help individuals to monitor their objectives.

Figure 2. 3D Bar Chart drawn with Excel with data labels. Source: email from Tom Lloyd In the last post I mentioned that often the bars in the front obscure those in the back, as happens here.