Transforming a simple line chart into an adaptable timeline is easier than you think.

Save time on status decks with a reusable Excel timeline chart. Data lives in a table, so new milestones update the timeline automatically.

Microsoft Excel doesn't always provide everything you need when it generates graphs. For example, by default, your line graph doesn't included a title. However, this doesn't mean you have to go ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a number of tools to build, update and manipulate graphs and charts. If you want to take the data from one chart and place it on another chart, Excel gives you two ways to ...

When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data. Sometimes a chart’s underlying data doesn’t fit in the chart window. When ...

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, ...

Excel looks at the dates and assumes that all dates form part of the series, whether or not they are entered in the spreadsheet. Assuming that the dates form the X-axis, as you create the chart and ...

Type your data or use existing data from your file. Highlight the range of cells containing your data. Then click the Insert tab and click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button. Click the Clustered ...

This article will be handy if you want to rename or edit the data series name in a Microsoft Excel graph or chart without changing the row or column name. The data series is the data that appears at ...