Transforming your company's financial data into visuals may be old hat after you've added Microsoft Excel's charts and graphs feature to your roster, but those graphics can seem to float in a sea of ...

So, select any cell in your formatted Excel table, and in the Insert Tab on the ribbon, click the top half of the split "PivotChart" button.

Using Excel’s PivotTables and PivotCharts, you can quickly analyze large data sets, summarize key data, and present it in easy-to-read format. Here’s how to get started with these powerful tools.

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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 ...

You can use Excel to store, organize, and analyze data. Excel is Microsoft's spreadsheet program, a part of the Microsoft 365 suite of products. Here's a crash course in the basics of using Microsoft ...

Whenever I manage large databases and projects in Excel, Microsoft’s spreadsheet software can sometimes feel intimidating. It often results in an inefficient and frustrating experience. Then, I ...

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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 ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

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 ...

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, ...