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 ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 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 ...

If you need to display a dynamic chart in a spreadsheet, you can convert the data to the table and insert the chart afterward. It is straightforward to insert a Dynamic Chart in Excel, and you do not ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 gives you a number of graphing options so you can display the information in your spreadsheet in many different ways. If you are dealing with yearly data, such as sales by year, ...

When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and horizontal ...

Need to know your organization’s YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in Microsoft Excel. You can make an Excel PivotChart to show year-over-year results like this one.

Hidden inside Excel is a tool that forecasts future patterns from your data in just a few clicks.

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, ...

A quick Excel routine clears visual noise, improves spacing, and locks in a reusable chart template.