Ever found yourself staring at a cluttered Excel dashboard, wondering if there’s a better way to present your data? Speedometer charts might seem like a flashy solution, but are they really the most ...

A quick Excel routine clears visual noise, improves spacing, and locks in a reusable chart template.

We’ve all been there, a crucial presentation is coming up, and your important data looks flat and uninspiring. How do you make your numbers stand out and tell a story in your next presentation? The ...

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

Most business establishments readily accept business reports from Business Intelligence software, which displays them in a Funnel chart type, which is widely used for presenting sales data. Apart from ...

Transform messy Excel tables into readable dashboards with charts, pivots, slicers, and lightweight visual techniques.

If you want to create a pie chart in Excel, this step-by-step guide is for you. In this article, we would consider the Hierarchical Sunburst chart as a type of pie chart, though the procedure for ...

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never used ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Need to know your organization’s YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in Microsoft Excel. You can make an Excel PivotChart to show year-over-year results like this one.

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 ...