Users will appreciate a chart that updates right before their eyes. In Microsoft Excel 2007 and Excel 2010, it’s as easy as creating a table. In earlier versions, you’ll need the formula method.

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 ...

Excel’s spill range is a product of using dynamic array functions. Learn how the spill range fulfills these functions. Over the last few months, I’ve written several articles about Excel’s newish ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the tedious cycle of manually updating Excel reports every time new data comes in? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? You tweak a chart here, adjust a formula there, and ...

Microsoft Excel 2013 charts are dynamic in that they automatically update when the current data changes. However, if you add a series of data points to a spreadsheet, Excel doesn't know to include ...

The strangest character in Excel might be its smartest.

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

The smartest thing Excel does happens in places you can't see.

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...