Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Pie charts are a common choice for visualizing data, but their limitations often make them less effective in professional or technical contexts. As explained by Leila Gharani, pie charts struggle to ...

Discover how to replace traditional Excel chart objects with clean, customizable in-cell visualizations using a single ...

What an outstanding group of readers I have! Both the quality and the quantity of entries to the Graph Makeover Contest were amazing. There were 29 entries to the first part of the contest which ...

In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker. There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel ...