Microsoft Excel charts give you a large number of options for displaying the data in your spreadsheet. Sometimes, it is useful and informative to plot two different sets of data on the same chart, ...

Excel has two primary types of charts that graph data sets onto an axis: line charts and scatter charts. Depending on your settings, the two types of charts can look identical, but using the wrong one ...

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Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

The Switch Row or Column feature allows the user to swap data over the axis; the data on the X-axis will move to the Y-axis. It’s a feature that transforms the data in the chart. Shantel has studied ...

How to add a single vertical bar to a Microsoft Excel line chart Your email has been sent There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels ...

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.