Welcome to Plot Twist, our new Excel data visualization series where we turn boring data into unique visualizations. In the ...

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Suppose you want to create a chart that reports the relationships within your company or organization. In that case, you can use the SmartArt graphic feature in Microsoft Excel to build an ...

Let us look at the steps involved in detail. Now it is copied to the clipboard. Now, right-click the chart’s data point and select Format Data Point from the menu or double-click the data point on the ...

The ability to create colorful and customized charts is one of the most useful features of Microsoft Excel. As a business owner, you can use Excel to create charts that show the growth of your profits ...

One of the more useful features in Microsoft Excel is Insert Charts. You can create a wide variety of charts: bar, line, pie and others. While many charts only involve one variable, you can create ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

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 ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

Are you constantly changing your Excel chart’s data range as new information becomes available? Mary Ann Richardson shows how to set up the chart to automatically update as you add new rows of data to ...