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If you want to create a dashboard in Microsoft Excel, this post will help you. A dashboard is a type of graphical representation that depicts the key performance indicators for a particular topic or ...

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Create a report using charts: Select Insert > Recommended Charts, then choose the one you want to add to the report sheet. Create a report with pivot tables: Select Insert > PivotTable. Select the ...

Imagine you’re preparing for a big presentation at work, and you need to showcase the progress of your project over the past year. You have all the data, but it’s scattered across multiple ...

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. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

A Column Chart can be used to create the most common form of a timeline in Excel, which consists of a horizontal layout with a time-based X-axis and events or ...

Excel offers many different chart types—including column and bar graphs—to present your data. However, you don't have to ...

Microsoft Excel doesn’t require any introduction, does it? If you are new to Excel, it may seem overwhelming at first, but the truth is that mastering the basics is quite easy, and it can dramatically ...