Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

The Quick Analysis menu won't replace everything you do in Excel, but it handles the repetitive stuff faster than navigating through ribbons. This shortcut eliminates most of the steps for you if you ...

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

Once you’ve built a Pivot Table, turning it into a chart is almost too easy. Simply click anywhere inside the table, go to Insert > PivotChart, and select your preferred chart type. You’d even get a ...

Copying a chart from a Microsoft Excel workbook document into your PowerPoint presentation can save you the time and effort of creating a new chart in a PowerPoint slide. By default, the copied chart ...

Creating Gantt charts in Excel can help you manage project timelines effectively. Follow these steps to create your own Gantt chart: When you embark on a project, you often need a visual ...

Microsoft Excel X may be a champ with numbers, but when it comes to displaying numerical information graphically, Excel’s standard chart formats don’t pack a lot of punch. But this doesn’t have to be ...

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells. For example, ...

10 ways to format Excel data so that people can actually understand it Your email has been sent Tell the truth, now. When you see a new worksheet arrive in your Inbox, your pulse doesn’t exactly ...

Excel puts lots of great tools on your desktop, but what each one of them does isn’t always obvious, especially since so many Excel features are hidden. Would you like to create multiple lines of text ...