One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form ... like reducing the gap between bars and columns—being ...

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.

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 ...

By selecting all three columns of data, you can select the type of chart from Excel's Insert tab. The most useful selection is a bar chart, because it allows you to format the second series as a line.