Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

If you have an Excel spreadsheet that contains empty data, such as empty rows or columns, and plot a graph from the spreadsheet, Excel plots all empty data. Microsoft Excel 2010 does not plot hidden ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...

Inserting and customizing the timeline chart . It's now time to insert a line chart, which you'll adapt into a timeline chart. Select the Date column (including the header ...

Microsoft Excel's CHOOSECOLS and CHOOSEROWS functions are a game-changer if you want to quickly extract specific columns or rows from your data without nesting several functions in your formula.

This article will be handy if you want to rename or edit the data series name in a Microsoft Excel graph or chart without changing the row or column name. The data series is the data that appears at ...

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It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting. Data bars are a kind of conditional formatting, with the bar length based on the value of the ...