Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Conditional formatting makes a cell look a certain way ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you can ...

Jazz up your Microsoft Excel workbook by creating conditional statements to visually represent trends within your data. The Conditional Format tool allows you to define conditional statements to ...

Conditional Formatting in Excel can be considered a valuable utility that can help visually enhance the data analysis and presentation in the spreadsheet by applying particular formatting based on pre ...

You can use conditional formatting to display simple graphs at the cell level. Susan Sales Harkins explains how. Thanks to conditional formats, graphs can be embedded at the cell level. Well, they’re ...

Learn how to add a highlight to expose groups in your Microsoft Excel data using a helper column and Excel’s conditional formatting feature. The article, How to use a border to discern groups more ...

Excel’s versatility makes it a compelling choice for creating Gantt charts tailored to project management needs. My Online Training Hub demonstrates how to use Excel’s built-in features, like ...

Transform messy Excel tables into readable dashboards with charts, pivots, slicers, and lightweight visual techniques.

Excel has over 20 chart types, and honestly, most of them are overwhelming. I've been working with Excel spreadsheets for years, and even though Excel offers a wide range of chart types, I reach for ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

Have you ever come across a Wall Street Journal chart and thought, “Wow, I wish I could create something that polished”? Whether you’re preparing for a big presentation, crafting a report, or simply ...

Type your data or use existing data from your file. Highlight the range of cells containing your data. Then click the Insert tab and click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button. Click the Clustered ...