Excel Add-Ins are applications written by independent programmers that provide enhanced capabilities for the primary software. Here's how to install, manage, and choose the best Add-Ins available.

Image: 200degrees/Adobe Stock. Area charts do a great job of exposing trends in Microsoft Excel data. The good news is that they’re easy to create; the bad news is that the default chart is ...

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.

Click "Developer" from Excel's ribbon. Click "Insert" from the Controls group, and click the scroll bar icon. Click and drag over the chart to add a scroll bar.

There are several ways to add text next to a Gantt chart in Excel. Because Gantt charts are made from modified bar charts, the text that normally appears on the chart will not always be relevant ...

Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more. Everyone knows Microsoft Excel ...

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 ...

Click OK on the “Axis labels” window and the “Select data source” window to add this information to your chart. You’ll now have an Excel bar chart that lists your tasks and dates—in ...