Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Have you ever spent hours crafting a timeline chart, only to abandon it because it was too clunky, rigid, or just plain uninspiring? You’re not alone. Many tools promise sleek visuals but fall short ...

Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

Follow the steps below to create a thermometer chart in Excel. Draw the oval shape at the bottom of the chart. Click the Shape Fill button and select a color that matches the color in your chart. Now, ...

Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here's an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. This past week, I started mapping out new flowerbeds ...

How to make the default area chart in Microsoft Excel more attractive Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel produces great charts, but sometimes they’re not visually pleasing. Learn how to change a ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...