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 ...

Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

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 ...

If the Excel chart labels disappeared, you need to make some changes to your chart. In this post, we will look at those changes.

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

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 ...

These obscure charts might be the key to visualizing your data.

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

As two peas in the same Microsoft Office Suite pod, PowerPoint and Excel were built to work seamlessly with each other, including giving users the ability to cut from one and paste right into the ...