Data can often feel overwhelming—rows upon rows of numbers, scattered information, and endless spreadsheets that seem to blur together. If you’ve ever stared at a dataset wondering how to make sense ...

As two peas in the same Microsoft Office Suite pod, PowerPoint and Excel were built to work seamlessly with each other, including giving users the ability to cut from one and paste right into the ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

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 ...

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never used ...

If you want to create a pie chart in Excel, this step-by-step guide is for you. In this article, we would consider the Hierarchical Sunburst chart as a type of pie chart, though the procedure for ...

You don't need Microsoft Excel to chart data in an existing Excel file; you can simply import that data and chart it entirely in Microsoft Word. Follow these steps: The specified data will be plotted ...

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, ...

You will need to add the relevant data to the spreadsheet, of course, but after that, just add the pre-made bubble chart, make a few adjustments if you will, and that’s it. Select the data set on the ...