Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

With Excel's versatile chart tool, putting together data visualizations is as easy as pie (groan).

Illustrate Your Chart’s Purpose Placing a photograph behind the chart itself can illustrate your chart’s theme and set the scene for your data. To do this, first left click on your chart to select ...

How to Change Series Data in Excel. To update your Microsoft Excel worksheet, you can add a data series to the source data and also update the worksheet chart to make your data meaningful to your ...

Excel won't display hidden data in a chart unless you flip the switch. Learn which option controls this behavior.