In this post, we show you how to add error bars to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You can use Error bars for standard deviation & trending margin of error.

If you create charts with Excel, error bars allow you to visualize margins of error for data points. Here's how to add error bars in Excel.

Enough about uncertainty. How do you represent this in Logger Pro, Excel- Open Office. I am going to show how to do this in Logger Pro and OpenOffice.

You don't have to be a graphic design whiz to spice up your status reports and team or company newsletters. Sometimes, there are easy-to-use tools hiding in plain sight.

How to create color scales in Excel If you prefer, you can also use color scales rather than data bars.

It uses a series of bars (called bins in Excel) to represent the value ranges and show how often certain values occur within them.