Quit the data-search struggle by organizing your raw data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Rather than manually scrolling through a list of disorganized records, use Excel's built-in tools to find ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet 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, ...

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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 ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...