A chart is a graphical representation of data that helps your audience to understand your information easily; charts make comparisons in your data and analyze the trends or patterns in data sets.

Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.

One way to streamline data entry is to create custom lists in Excel and use them to create drop-down lists in specified cells. When you use the program's Data Validation tool, along with its ...