Whether spreadsheets are complicated or not, the fact remains that graphs help break down your data into an easier to understand format, enhancing the general readability of your Excel spreadsheet.

While there are advanced project management (PM) tools for creating Gantt charts and other visuals, you can also create them using Microsoft Excel’s Stacked Bar Chart feature. Keep reading to ...

Microsoft Excel's quick-format chart and graph features offer a way to instantly convert your data-filled cells into a visual representation such as a pie chart or bar graph. But sometimes the ...

One of the issues with formatting charts in Excel is that there are so many menus that it's sometimes impossible to find the ...

With features like auto-summing, chart making and the ability to track numbers from multiple lists, budgets or accounts, Microsoft Excel has become an essential business tool. You can use it to ...

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 ...

To better analyze and present these metrics, I’d like to plot them on a bull’s-eye chart in Excel. Is this possible? A. Excel does not offer a bull’s-eye chart, but with a little trickery you can coax ...

Combination Charts allow the reader to study data to determine if there is a relationship between the two data sets. In Microsoft Excel, when creating a graph, it generally has an X-axis and a Y ...

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 ...

How to create a YOY comparison chart using a PivotChart in Excel Your email has been sent Need to know your organization's YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in ...

Here’s how to make a Gantt chart in Excel to accommodate complex agile project management within the familiar tool.