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 ...

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 ...

The Gap Width option in Excel for Mac 2011 controls the spacing of bars in a column graph. Decreasing this percentage shrinks the empty space between columns by widening the columns themselves.

As PCMag's resident data journalist, I practically live in Microsoft Excel. I've learned that it's capable of far more than I ...

Small charts, big difference.

If you use Microsoft Excel regularly for studying or work that requires a spreadsheet to be filled with data-driven information, then you know it can be quite difficult and time-consuming to decipher ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

When you have too many data points to display in a dashboard chart, add a scroll bar so users can still view all the data. Sometimes a chart’s underlying data doesn’t fit in the chart window. When ...