Sparklines turn spreadsheet rows into instant visual trends without building traditional Excel charts.

ATLANTA, GA. — Microsoft is releasing a number of significant updates to its Office applications at the Microsoft Ignite conference today. Included in the updates are new map chart types in Excel, an ...

Transform messy Excel tables into readable dashboards with charts, pivots, slicers, and lightweight visual techniques.

Microsoft Excel gives you a number of tools to build, update and manipulate graphs and charts. If you want to take the data from one chart and place it on another chart, Excel gives you two ways to ...

Microsoft Excel produces great charts, but sometimes they’re not visually pleasing. Learn how to change a few formats to yield a professional-looking chart within minutes. Area charts do a great job ...

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, ...

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

Creating Gantt charts in Excel can help you manage project timelines effectively. Follow these steps to create your own Gantt chart: When you embark on a project, you often need a visual ...

Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a hierarchical view of the target data and how the sections of that hierarchy compare in size to each other. The main branches of the tree are displayed ...