Getting the most out of raw business data, such as trends and high points, can be a real challenge. That’s where charts, which display data in ways that make it easier for your audience to understand, ...

Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains. Whether naming comes in the form of text, numbers or a combination, both the x ...

Of the 17 different types of charts in Excel, I'd confidently speculate that only a few are used frequently. Actually, they all have their benefits in different circumstances and allow you to display ...

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 ...

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

This post will show you how to change the default chart color in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can also change the default color of graphs, charts, lines, or anything else with the help of this ...

Creating Gantt charts in Excel can help you manage project timelines effectively. Follow these steps to create your own Gantt chart: When you embark on a project, you often need a visual ...

Before doing this, have more than one worksheet tab open. Select the chart, then go to the Chart Design tab. In the Location group, click the Move Chart button. In the Move Chart dialog box. Select ...

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Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2018. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. Q. In Excel, is it ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall and talk about how they could be used with your data. We covered Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & ...

You can add alt text descriptions in Excel to any kind of illustration, including photos, screenshots, shapes, 3D models, and Smart Art. Alt text is a sentence or two that describes an image you've ...