Excel charts get the job done, but these tools make your data easier on the eyes.

Staring at a blank slide while wrestling with raw numbers still slows teams down. A 2025 SlideSpeak study found chart ...

Transforming a simple line chart into an adaptable timeline is easier than you think.

I dream about a perfectly organized refrigerator and pantry, where everything is clearly visible and nothing is wasted. But I haven’t found the right containers to make that a reality — until now.

Can the users of financial statements and annual reports rely upon the charts in them for accuracy? A sample of 50 public companies’ yearly reports collected by the author found that 86% had at least ...

In this post, we’ll show you how to create progress bars in Excel on a Windows 11/10 PC. Progress bars are quite popular in Excel. They’re often used to display task completion percentages, monitor ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or milestones plotted along it. To create a ...

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