Imagine you’re preparing for a big presentation at work, and you need to showcase the progress of your project over the past year. You have all the data, but it’s scattered across multiple ...

A date-and-cost line chart tracks a commodity's changing price over time. Economists use such diagrams to display broad market trends and predict future prices. Businesses that restock continually use ...

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

In Microsoft Excel, you can convert your data into many types of charts. However, frustratingly, there's no option for a standard timeline chart. To get over this hurdle, I use a basic line chart to ...

Among its many features, Microsoft Excel enables you to incorporate charts, providing a way to add visual appeal to your business reports. Each of Excel's 12 chart types has different features that ...

Q. My supervisor wants me to include more data visualizations in my projects. Do you have any suggestions? A. Data visualization transforms raw data into graphical representations, making complex ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...