Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

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 ...

In this tutorial, we will show a simple trick to show charts with hidden data in Excel. Microsoft Excel is quite useful for analyzing trends and patterns in large data, It is easy to lay, reformat, ...

You will need to add the relevant data to the spreadsheet, of course, but after that, just add the pre-made bubble chart, make a few adjustments if you will, and that’s it. Select the data set on the ...

PivotTables have been my go-to data analysis tool, but they often leave me staring at rows of numbers trying to spot patterns. Now I reach for PivotCharts instead. They turn the same data into clear ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Filtering in Excel allows you to organize your data in multiple ways. Using a filter, you can cut down the amount of data shown on your sheet ...

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 ...

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, ...

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how. Viewing the distribution of related values from one ...

When manipulating large amounts of data in an Excel spreadsheet, it can be challenging or time-consuming to select specific items by hand. This is where the data filtering feature of the program can ...