Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here's an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. This past week, I started mapping out new flowerbeds ...

Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

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 ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

When you first create a chart in Microsoft Excel, it is placed in the currently focused worksheet. The default position may be convenient for referencing existing data while viewing the chart, but it ...

In Microsoft Excel 2010, a chart sits over the worksheet and provides a visual expression of the underlying data. You can use a chart in conjunction with elements on the worksheet to get a better ...

on a worksheet, but the same values may look awkward in an Excel chart. By default, charts use the same number format as the worksheet’s original data series. The good news is you do not have to ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

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