Excel offers a wide variety of charts and graphs, each designed to help you uniquely visualize data. But choosing the right ...

Excel displays percentages of a whole using pie charts, also known as wedge charts of circle graphs. Businesses tend to rely on such charts. The diagrams appear cluttered when graphing many items, and ...

Two weeks ago I announced a bad graph contest to try to encourage software vendors to improve their offerings. Readers nominated a number of bad graphs for the contest. This post discusses some of the ...

The way you present your Excel data can make a significant impact on how your message is received. Excel, a tool that most professionals are familiar with, has immense potential for creating visually ...

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 ...

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.

If you have the latest version of Microsoft Excel, you might have noticed that the appearance of its charts have improved dramatically compared to the Windows 95-style graphics from older versions of ...

In addition to launching a hub for the Olympics, Google Trends has released new tools for viewing and exporting search data. Last week, Google Trends announced a refresh to its site, in addition to ...