It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

One clever visual tool for highlighting a specific chart element or data point is to add a vertical bar. It might represent “today,” or simply draw attention to the worst or best moment in the ...

How to Add Zoom & Scroll to an Excel Chart. Excel charts containing large amounts of data prevent readers for easily reading small segments. For example, if a chart tracks your company's daily ...

Instead of manually entering data when compiling your new data set, use Excel's functions to add together figures from your old data sets. This saves time and prevents typos. For example, if you ...

Now, out of the three data sets used to create the bubble chart, two-axis of the chart in a series of XY coordinates are shown. After that, a third set shows the important data points.