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Microsoft Excel allows you to create charts and graphs tailored to your specific business needs using features and details that make it unique. For instance, you can add target lines to charts that ...

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 ...

Creating Gantt charts in Excel can help you manage project timelines effectively. Follow these steps to create your own Gantt chart: When you embark on a project, you often need a visual ...

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

Let us look at the steps involved in detail. Now it is copied to the clipboard. Now, right-click the chart’s data point and select Format Data Point from the menu or double-click the data point on the ...

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Waterfall charts are powerful visual tools that can help you understand the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. They are particularly useful in financial analysis ...

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 ...

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, ...