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 ...

Whether your corporate style guide prefers to call an image that displays spreadsheet data a chart or a graph, you're likely to be using Excel spreadsheet software to generate it. With Microsoft Excel ...

A control chart plots measured values along with upper and lower quality control limits. Values appearing outside these limits are unacceptable and could indicate a manufacturing problem. Although ...

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 ...

Before doing this, have more than one worksheet tab open. Select the chart, then go to the Chart Design tab. In the Location group, click the Move Chart button. In the Move Chart dialog box. Select ...

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

Need to cook up a chart for a Web page? You could do it in Excel and export the result, but there are a few things wrong with that approach. It's needlessly complicated, which is always a good reason ...

Budgeting can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. While there is no shortage of finance apps, nothing beats the ...

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 ...