Image: 200degrees/Adobe Stock. Area charts do a great job of exposing trends in Microsoft Excel data. The good news is that they’re easy to create; the bad news is that the default chart is ...

Click the chart area to bring up the Chart Tools ribbon. Edit your combination chart with the options in the Chart Tools' tabs: Design, Layout and Format. Excel contains predefined chart layouts ...

When creating a chart in Microsoft Excel, there may be a lot of extra white space surrounding the actual data. ... Click on the plot area of the chart.