Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you can ...

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.

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 ...

Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

If you want to create a pie chart in Excel, this step-by-step guide is for you. In this article, we would consider the Hierarchical Sunburst chart as a type of pie chart, though the procedure for ...

When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data. Sometimes a chart’s underlying data doesn’t fit in the chart window. When ...

How to add a single vertical bar to a Microsoft Excel line chart Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels ...