Reader Adam screencasts one of our best Microsoft Excel tips ever - how to make an instant, in-cell bar graph. Hit the play button above to see it in action. Nice job, Adam! You've won yourself an ...

To get you started using charts, here are the most common types of charts used in Excel and when you’d want to use them: Column and bar charts: These chart types are very similar, with column ...

Graphing two sets of numbers in Excel lets you show, rather than tell. To get your numbers into Excel, you can open an existing spreadsheet that contains the data, or you can click into a cell and ...

Inserting a graph in Excel. Step 1: You’ll need to add your data into the Excel spreadsheet, with each column having its own dedicated title. If you make a mistake with the column heading order ...

Instead, you can save a chart as a template and reuse it with only a single click. Here’s how. Open an Excel workbook, make ...

Click "Insert" in Excel's ribbon. Click "Pie" in the Charts group, and click one of the "2D Pie Chart" options to create a blank chart. Right-click the chart.

Excel 2011’s Sparklines make it easy to see trends in your data by looking at a single cell. ... Data Bar draws a small bar graph behind each cell’s values.

You may have used Excel for years without delving into Styles (or stylesheets). We’re going to cover Cell Styles, and Smart Art, Drawing, Graphics, Picture, and Chart Tools.