It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

How to Find the Slope of a Line on an Excel Graph. In math and statistics, you may occasionally need to calculate the slope of a line generated by coordinates in the (x,y) format.

How to Calculate Y-Intercept in Excel. The y-intercept is the point at which a linear equation crosses the y-axis on the x=0 plot point. The equation to determine both the slope and the y ...

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