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 ...

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, ...

In Microsoft Excel 2010, a chart sits over the worksheet and provides a visual expression of the underlying data. You can use a chart in conjunction with elements on the worksheet to get a better ...

So you've got all your data lined up, but when you chart it in Excel, it looks like something a high school student made. Luckily, a few subtle tweaks can turn your Excel charts from sad to slick.

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 ...

One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form, and Excel is a great program for doing just this.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sparklines are word-sized charts that live in individual cells. This great feature was added to Excel in 2010 but still remains massively underutilized. Produced by ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

Q: Our company is interviewing, evaluating, and hiring new employees, using a detailed checklist and interviewer rating system. Now that we have all of this data, is there a visual method for ...

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