A simple guide on how to create a custom icon-based chart in Excel to visually represent data in a clear and engaging way.

This productivity feature explores how to build a monthly comparison bar chart in Excel. It highlights organizing data, selecting chart types, and using visualization tools to make reports easier to ...

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, ...

Waterfall charts are powerful visual tools that can help you understand the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. They are particularly useful in financial analysis ...

When you open Excel and start working with data, you might wonder how to visualize the distribution of your data points. This is where a Histogram Chart comes into play. A Histogram Chart is a type of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Microsoft Excel produces great charts, but sometimes they’re not visually pleasing. Learn how to change a few formats to yield a professional-looking chart within minutes. Area charts do a great job ...

Parth, a seasoned tech writer, wields the keyboard (or pen) with finesse to unravel the intricacies of both Windows and Mac operating systems. He has covered evergreen content on mobile devices and ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a number of tools to build, update and manipulate graphs and charts. If you want to take the data from one chart and place it on another chart, Excel gives you two ways to ...

Today's defect rate was 3%. Is that high, or is it just normal?” Even if you record the daily defect rate, you may find ...