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.

A treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of data and makes it easy to spot patterns. Learn how to create a treemap chart in Excel.

To create a Mind Map in Excel, you can use Shapes, Text Boxes, and Connectors, or use SmartArt for a more structured approach.

Indeed, you can use Excel to create heat maps for pretty much anything, from displaying your sports team's on-field strengths to showing how climate change is impacting temperatures over time.

Need to know your organization's YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works.