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Enter the “ Column Column Chart ” in Microsoft Excel, a clever visualization technique that combines category-level data with overall totals to tell a more complete story.

Enter the dates in column A and the data in column B. If you enter the dates only as months, Excel automatically formats the chart with evenly spaced, monthly data.

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 ...

2. Leverage Excel Templates: Excel offers a variety of pre-made Gantt chart templates that can save you time. Customize these templates to fit your specific project needs. 3. Use Formulas: ...

You’ll now have an Excel bar chart that lists your tasks and dates—in reverse order. (Don’t worry; we’ll fix that in a minute.) Step 5: Transform Into a Gantt Chart ...

Excel’s Chart Wizard and Function Wizard—simple UI affordances for quickly generating infographics and formulas, respectively—are implied to be magical and whimsical by their very names.

Learn how to make the most of Observable JavaScript and the Observable Plot library, including a step-by-step guide to eight basic data visualization tasks in Plot.

You could leave the chart as is, as a combo chart, as shown in Figure D, but let’s remove the lines so it’s strictly a floating bar chart. Figure D To finish the Excel chart, delete the lines.

Figure B The Excel add-in inserts a chart populated with dummy data. How to connect the Excel data to the chart At this point, you’re ready to connect the chart to real data.