Wordsmith for spreadsheets comes with a free artificial intelligence-powered chart analyzer called ExplainIt. Simply select a chart or graph, and ExplainIt provides an instant narrative analysis.

Open the spreadsheet or create a new one. Select all the data that you want to convert into a chart. Go to Insert > Table. Confirm the range in Create Table window. Again, select the same rows and ...

Open the Excel 2010 spreadsheet that holds the two charts you want to make into one. Click on the first chart to activate it, then click on any of the data series that make up the chart.

In the Charts group, click Insert Line or Area Chart and choose Line with Markers (Figure C). Figure C Image: Susan Harkins/TechRepublic. Choose a line chart with markers to represent monthly sales.

There are several ways to add text next to a Gantt chart in Excel. Because Gantt charts are made from modified bar charts, the text that normally appears on the chart will not always be relevant ...

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.