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, ...

Microsoft Excel's quick-format chart and graph features offer a way to instantly convert your data-filled cells into a visual representation such as a pie chart or bar graph. But sometimes the charts ...

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 ...

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Transforming your company's financial data into visuals may be old hat after you've added Microsoft Excel's charts and graphs feature to your roster, but those graphics can seem to float in a sea of ...

Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...