One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

A percentile graph visualizes the percentiles of a given data set. The graph will show a box suspended on the graph that represents the area between the 25th and 75th percentile. The graph will also ...

Have you ever come across a Wall Street Journal chart and thought, “Wow, I wish I could create something that polished”? Whether you’re preparing for a big presentation, crafting a report, or simply ...

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Staring at gray grids all day? Same here—until I learned a one-step visual hack for Excel. It’s fast, doesn’t need fancy add-ons, and instantly makes data clearer and more fun to work with. There's a ...

This article will be handy if you want to rename or edit the data series name in a Microsoft Excel graph or chart without changing the row or column name. The data series is the data that appears at ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

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