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 ...

Sparklines are mini charts placed in single cells, each representing a row of data in your selection. But if Sparklines is missing or not showing up in your Excel spreadsheet when opening the file, ...

How to highlight details for better insight with sparkline charts in Excel Your email has been sent The recent article, How sparklines deal with non-numeric values in Excel shows you how to avoid ...

Excel has this useful feature that probably most people completely overlook—the Quick Analysis menu. If you've been manually creating charts, writing formulas for totals, or spending time formatting ...

While Excel's charts are excellent tools for displaying complex data in more understandable ways, sometimes, you might want ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp. Have you noticed that people groan when you pop open a spreadsheet to ...

This week’s Gearhead discusses Sparklines, a powerful technique for communicating numeric information. Invented by Edward Tufte, the guru of information display, Sparklines are (in Tufte’s words): ...