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, ...

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 ...

Excel offers many different chart types—including column and bar graphs—to present your data. However, you don't have to ...

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 ...

Have you ever poured hours into crafting a Power BI report only to realize your charts are, well, uninspiring? You’re not alone. While Power BI column charts are a staple for visualizing data, their ...

PowerPoint will let you animate chart elements, but the option's not easy to find. If you don't know about it, you might not even go looking for it. You can animate just about anything in PowerPoint, ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall and talk about how they could be used with your data. We covered Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & ...

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...