Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

If you need to display a dynamic chart in a spreadsheet, you can convert the data to the table and insert the chart afterward. It is straightforward to insert a Dynamic Chart in Excel, and you do not ...

Microsoft Excel can perform numerous statistical functions, as well as create charts from statistical data. Statistical data includes numeric variables or word variables, also called categorical ...

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 ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is one ...

If you want to create a dashboard in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you. A dashboard is a type of graphical representation that depicts the key performance indicators for a particular topic or ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...