In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel’s 3D bar chart. Figure 1 shows the figure that Tom Lloyd nominated as worst graph and Figure 2 shows the ...

Figure 2 shows a conic Excel graph; the numbers plotted are 2, 4, 6, and 8. ... Figure 3. Example of a 3D Bar Chart from Excel. Excel’s three-dimensional bar charts are common.

The YOY chart shown in Figure A displays a line for each year in the data set. If you want to compare the first quarter of 2022 to 2021 and 2022, you’d want to see three lines—one for each ...

Figure B. The Excel add-in inserts a chart populated with dummy data. How to connect the Excel data to the chart. At this point, you’re ready to connect the chart to real data.

You can add alt text descriptions in Excel to any kind of illustration, including photos, screenshots, shapes, 3D models, and Smart Art. Alt text is a sentence or two that describes an image you ...