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Waterfall charts are powerful visual tools that can help you understand the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. They are particularly useful in financial analysis ...

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 ...

Charts are helpful for us to show information to an audience in graphics to make it easier to understand. There are a variety of charts available in Microsoft Excel, such as Pie, Column, Line, ...

So, you want to know how to create a scatter plot in Excel. Chances are, you probably already know what the term means, but given Microsoft Excel’s arsenal of options packed into each tab, getting ...

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 ...

Follow the steps to make a Run Chart in Microsoft Excel: Run charts are used to monitor the performance of the process over time with a focus on process improvement; it displays the measurement of 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 ...

Whether you are preparing a proposal for a new client or presenting your annual sales forecast, pie charts provide an instant visualization of complex numbers. Microsoft Excel includes a range of ...

I’m starting a series on dashboards because I think creating sexy dashboards is a critical skill every marketer needs to know. It’s going to be a long series — but by the time we’re finished, you’ll ...

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 ...