Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

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 ...

One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form, and Excel is a great program for doing just this. However, Excel's overwhelming number of menus often results in some of the most ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Excel offers many different chart types—including column and bar graphs—to present your data. However, you don't have to settle for the preset column and bar layouts. Instead, you can swap these for ...

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 story, ...

Windows only: Chart Advisor, a free plug-in for Excel 2007, takes the guess-and-hope element out of making your spreadsheet data presentable. The plug-in adds a single button to Excel's "Insert" ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

Change an Excel chart’s minimum axis value for a cleaner look Your email has been sent If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis ...