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 ...

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 ...

If you specify the TRENDVAR= option, you can provide distinct labels for the vertical axes of the and trend charts by breaking the vertical axis into two parts with a split character. Specify the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how. Viewing the distribution of related values from one ...