Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works.

Step 2: Make an Excel Bar Chart To start to visualize your data, you’ll first create an Excel stacked bar chart from the spreadsheet. Select the “Start date” column, so it’s highlighted.

Go to Formulas and click Create from Selection within the Defined Names group. This opens a new window to instruct Excel to choose the names associated with the values. For this example, choose Left ...