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 ...

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 ...

One of the more useful features in Microsoft Excel is Insert Charts. You can create a wide variety of charts: bar, line, pie and others. While many charts only involve one variable, you can create ...

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 ...

Create a dynamic bridge between Excel and PowerPoint to automate chart updates and prevent manual copy-paste errors.

In this guide, we show you how to create a Pareto chart in Excel. Excel is the best. Though we have many free and paid alternatives, the ease with which we can create complex data sheets and perform ...

Waterfall charts are powerful visual tools that can help you understand the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. They are particularly useful in financial analysis ...

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 ...

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, ...