Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

If you use Microsoft Excel regularly for studying or work that requires a spreadsheet to be filled with data-driven information, then you know it can be quite difficult and time-consuming to decipher ...

You can make a line graph in Excel in a matter of seconds using data already entered into the spreadsheet. Line graphs can help make data easier to understand by creating a visual representation of ...

A cumulative average recalculates a data set's average as new data is added. During the recalculation all data contained in the data set is included in the average. In Microsoft Excel your spreadsheet ...

Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here's an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. This past week, I started mapping out new flowerbeds ...

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Most business establishments readily accept business reports from Business Intelligence software, which displays them in a Funnel chart type, which is widely used for presenting sales data. Apart from ...

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, ...

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Microsoft Excel 2010 gives you a number of graphing options so you can display the information in your spreadsheet in many different ways. If you are dealing with yearly data, such as sales by year, ...