Common Excel visuals like pies, 3D charts, and dual axes often mislead more than they clarify data.

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

Guidance from data visualization specialists warns that some Excel chart types can confuse or mislead audiences. Examples include pie charts with many segments, 3D charts that distort perspective, and ...

The Change Chart Type utility in Microsoft Excel features several graphs from which you can select to convert your current Excel chart into a graph. Choosing a new graph type from the utility ...