Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains. Whether naming comes in the form of text, numbers or a combination, both the x ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is one ...

Graphs in Microsoft Excel typically chart time on the horizontal axis. Time is the independent variable in most relationships and dependent variables appear on the vertical axis. Some charts, though, ...

The Switch Row or Column feature allows the user to swap data over the axis; the data on the X-axis will move to the Y-axis. It’s a feature that transforms the data in the chart. Shantel has studied ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

Excel 2016’s many new features include six new chart types. We’ll go over Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall and talk about how they could be used with your data. We covered Treemap, Sunburst, and Box & ...