You can use Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet program, to store, organize, and analyze data in a number of ways.

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Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

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With features like auto-summing, chart making and the ability to track numbers from multiple lists, budgets or accounts, Microsoft Excel has become an essential business tool. You can use it to keep ...

Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...

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The way you present your Excel data can make a significant impact on how your message is received. Excel, a tool that most professionals are familiar with, has immense potential for creating visually ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...

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, ...

Transforming your company's financial data into visuals may be old hat after you've added Microsoft Excel's charts and graphs feature to your roster, but those graphics can seem to float in a sea of ...

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