This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always the Best Way to Show Time Series. The comment by Meic Goodyear said, “A small point, but you could improve your Figure 2 ...

Double-click the chart's left axis to open the Format Axis side panel. Click "Axis Value" to allow manual control over the axis. Enter the number you wish to use for the axis in the field provided. To ...

A single large value in Microsoft Excel can disrupt your whole graph. For example, if you create a bar graph showing the market share held by each company in your industry, a single dominant ...

Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

From the bar graph above, the main points are: Each bar has its own label on the horizontal axis There is a scale on the vertical axis The bars are of equal width ...