A chart is a graphical representation of data that helps your audience to understand your information easily; charts make comparisons in your data and analyze the trends or patterns in data sets.

A legend box in an Excel chart lists the chart's data series. It specifies each series' name and the color of its marker on the chart. When you try to edit a legend using the Format Legend dialog box, ...

Microsoft Excel 2007 supports a variety of chart types to create a combination chart and help your viewers see the differences between two or more data series. For example, one data series in a line ...

Treemap has nine variations, all of which show a hierarchical view of the target data and how the sections of that hierarchy compare in size to each other. The main branches of the tree are displayed ...

Of the 17 different types of charts in Excel, I'd confidently speculate that only a few are used frequently. Actually, they all have their benefits in different circumstances and allow you to display ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall and talk about how they could be used with your data. We covered Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & ...