Turn generic columns into custom visuals by adding floating totals, nesting series, and layering simultaneous data labels.

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

If you’re looking to improve your skills in creating Excel charts and transform how you visually represent data, this guide by Simon Sez IT is an excellent resource. It covers everything from reliable ...

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 ...

This article will be handy if you want to rename or edit the data series name in a Microsoft Excel graph or chart without changing the row or column name. The data series is the data that appears at ...

Transforming your company's financial data into visuals may be old hat after you've added Microsoft Excel's charts and graphs feature to your roster, but those graphics can seem to float in a sea of ...

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 ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...

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, ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...