For even the most new-to-the-program users, compiling a graph in Microsoft Excel is fairly intuitive. Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render it ...

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 ...

Adding a graph in a spreadsheet is no big deal as long as you know the process. However, do you know that you can make a curved line graph in Excel or Google Sheets? If not, you should check out this ...

Transforming your company's financial data into visuals may be old hat after you've added Microsoft Excel's charts and graphs feature to your roster, but those graphics can seem to float in a sea of ...

When collecting, analyzing, and sharing data in an Excel chart, it is helpful to be able to represent it in a manner that is quickly and easily understood. Creating a bar or column graph is a great ...

Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

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 ...

Need to know your organization’s YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in Microsoft Excel. You can make an Excel PivotChart to show year-over-year results like this one.

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 ...