It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

Microsoft Excel 2013 charts are dynamic in that they automatically update when the current data changes. However, if you add a series of data points to a spreadsheet, Excel doesn't know to include ...

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

In a line chart, every piece of data you enter goes into the Y axis. Excel automatically distributes these points along a uniform X axis. To add more data to the Y axis in a line chart, add ...

Let us look at the steps involved in detail. Now it is copied to the clipboard. Now, right-click the chart’s data point and select Format Data Point from the menu or double-click the data point ...

Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.

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 ...