You can make a line graph in Excel in a matter of seconds using data already entered into the spreadsheet.

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

A pie chart is one of the simplest kinds of graphs in statistics, but it has tons of potential when it comes to displaying your data. If you use Google Sheets, creating a pie chart is about as easy as ...

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 ...

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If you need to display a dynamic chart in a spreadsheet, you can convert the data to the table and insert the chart afterward. It is straightforward to insert a Dynamic Chart in Excel, and you do not ...

A Mini Excel spreadsheet will appear; edit the spreadsheet. When the Mini Excel spreadsheet appears, it will show you an example of how to format the Histogram chart. Enter some frequencies into the ...

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 ...

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, ...

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never used ...

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