How to Import an Excel Chart Into MapInfo. When it comes to communicating data, a map that displays geographic data as well as numeric figures can be a more effective visual than a basic chart ...

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.

Microsoft released a variety of update to is Office applications includes Excel maps, PowerPoint QuickStarter and a new intelligent embedding capabilitiy called Tap for Word and Outlook.

Excel 2016 for Windows saw the addition of six new chart types including treemap, sunburst and waterfall, while Excel 2019 added funnel and map charts.

Before Excel 2016, Power Map was a popular free 3D geospatial visualization add-in for Excel. Now it’s free, built into Excel for Microsoft 365, and has been renamed 3D Maps.

Excel 2016 gives you six new chart styles. The three we explore here make it easier to compare data and show hierarchies and other relationships.