Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

When you first create a chart in Microsoft Excel, it is placed in the currently focused worksheet. The default position may be convenient for referencing existing data while viewing the chart, but it ...

Excel offers many different tools for formatting your charts, but the key to success is choosing which ones to use. In this guide, I'll share some of my favorite chart-formatting hints, hopefully ...

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...

Before doing this, have more than one worksheet tab open. Select the chart, then go to the Chart Design tab. In the Location group, click the Move Chart button. In the Move Chart dialog box. Select ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

Microsoft Excel can add charts to your workbook in two forms - chart sheets and embedded charts. Chart sheets set charts as new sheets within the workbook. They work well when you created the workbook ...

Windows may get all the attention, but when you want to get real work done, you turn to the applications that run on it. And if you use spreadsheets, that generally means Excel. Excel is, of course, ...

Excel won't display hidden data in a chart unless you flip the switch. Learn which option controls this behavior. By default, Excel displays only visible data in a chart. Consequently, if you hide ...

One nice thing about Microsoft Office applications is that they’ve been designed to talk to each other. For example, you can take an Excel chart and place it in a Word document to illustrate a report.