It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

One clever visual tool for highlighting a specific chart element or data point is to add a vertical bar. It might represent “today,” or simply draw attention to the worst or best moment in the ...

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 ...

How to Combine Pie Charts Into a Single Figure in Excel. Pie charts are unique among the types of graphs Excel can make because they only work with limited sets of data.

Data labels are text or numbers that provide additional information about each data point in a chart. You can use data labels to display the exact values of each data point, as well as any other ...