Microsoft Excel X may be a champ with numbers, but when it comes to displaying numerical information graphically, Excel’s standard chart formats don’t pack a lot of punch. But this doesn’t have to be ...

The Chart Wizard of earlier versions may be gone in Excel 2007, but creating charts is still as easy as ever. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts ...

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program includes a Chart Wizard for making a variety of graphs from tabulated data. In some situations, as with scientific experiments, the data in one or both axes of ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

Most of us know how to create a chart in Excel, but it’s the chart with a little something extra that often does the best job. For instance, suppose you’re charting product favorites by age group and ...

Getting the most out of raw business data, such as trends and high points, can be a real challenge. That’s where charts, which display data in ways that make it easier for your audience to understand, ...

You don't have to settle for those boring default chart styles. Use this tip to make your graphs stand out. Excel’s Chart Wizard makes it easy to create and format charts and graphs. By default, ...

If you do not want to move a chart while changing the width of the cell, you can lock the chart position in an Excel spreadsheet with this guide. Although the chart moves as per the cells’ width and ...

This post will show you how to change the default chart color in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You can also change the default color of graphs, charts, lines, or anything else with the help of this ...

Kathy Rogers is director of information systems at Chicago-based Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School. These suggestions will help you work more effectively with Excel. 1. Quick fill adjacent cells ...

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...