Effects make your chart looks colorful or unique. In this tutorial, we explain how to create a Chart with Crayon effect in an Excel spreadsheet.

How to customize the Bubble Chart in Excel In terms of customizing the bubble chart, this is a fairly simple task as well. Then again it all boils down to what you want to accomplish.

Change the chart's style by making your bars have a thatched pattern, changing the colors, adding a shaded background, and more. Select the data source for the chart or switch the x-axis and the y ...

Image: PixieMe/Adobe Stock There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels or use pictures instead of a plain column in a column chart ...

How to Add an Overlay to Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010 can create a chart to illustrate numeric data from a worksheet. Excel's "Chart Tools" contain "Labels" that customize the chart area.

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.

Open the Excel 2010 spreadsheet that holds the two charts you want to make into one. Click on the first chart to activate it, then click on any of the data series that make up the chart.

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.

Excel provides 10 different chart types, such as bar, pie, column, area, etc. Select the Insert tab, then choose the Recommended Charts icon in the Charts group on the Ribbon bar.