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 ...

Of the 17 different types of charts in Excel, I'd confidently speculate that only a few are used frequently. Actually, they all have their benefits in different circumstances and allow you to display ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel as a ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

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, ...

When you create a chart in Excel, you get a clean, standard design that does a decent job of presenting your data. Right after inserting the chart, the ribbon also surfaces a set of recommended, ...

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