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 ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you can ...

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.

Common Excel visuals like pies, 3D charts, and dual axes often mislead more than they clarify data.

When the relationship between the charted entities is less important than the individual entities, try using these two chart techniques to highlight important details in Microsoft Excel. Charts are ...

In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker. There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel ...