Excel has two primary types of charts that graph data sets onto an axis: line charts and scatter charts. Depending on your settings, the two types of charts can look identical, but using the wrong one ...

For even the most new-to-the-program users, compiling a graph in Microsoft Excel is fairly intuitive. Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render it ...

How to add a single vertical bar to a Microsoft Excel line chart Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels ...

Microsoft Excel is great for numbers, certainly, it does this job really well. But, if you want to present your data in an attractive manner that allows you to visualize and analyze it easily, then ...

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 ...

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never used ...

One of the issues with formatting charts in Excel is that there are so many menus that it's sometimes impossible to find the command you want to implement. What's more, many of the chart formatting ...

If you use Microsoft Excel regularly for studying or work that requires a spreadsheet to be filled with data-driven information, then you know it can be quite difficult and time-consuming to decipher ...

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 ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

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 ...

In the Format Data Point pane, click the "Fill and Line" paint pot, and in the Fill section, check "Solid fill," and change ...