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 ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

Waterfall charts are powerful visual tools that can help you understand the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. They are particularly useful in financial analysis ...

Type your data or use existing data from your file. Highlight the range of cells containing your data. Then click the Insert tab and click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button. Click the Clustered ...

Excel offers many different tools for formatting your charts, but the key to success is choosing which ones to use. In this guide, I'll share some of my favorite chart-formatting hints, hopefully ...

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, ...

Whether working with a team or alone, you need to maintain a project’s schedule. One tool that can keep you on track is a burndown chart created in Microsoft Excel. These are line charts that compare ...

Financial forecasting gives you critical insights into your business and helps you project future sales and expenses. Let’s look at how you can create your financial projections in Microsoft Excel and ...

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