Image: PixieMe/Adobe Stock. There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels or use pictures instead of a plain column in a column chart.

Excel automatically inserts the graph, but it has no labels. Review the new green "Chart Tools" tab and ribbon at the top of the screen. If you don't see them, click the chart to enable them.

To make a smooth curved line graph in Excel, follow these steps- Enter your data in the spreadsheet and select it to make a graph. Go to the Insert tab and insert a 2-D line graph.

You can set this up in Excel to have all the data in one table, then break out the calculations line by line. Let’s derive the compound annual growth rate of a company’s sales over 10 years ...