Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance, creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter and author of You Don't Need a Budget: Stop Worrying about Debt, Spend without Shame, and Manage Money ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 features a tool set that offers you the option of performing assorted functions on your data, including turning that data into a graph. Your Excel graph will be inserted into your ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

Whether presenting a project at school, delivering a critical report at work, or simply trying to make sense of your budget, graphs are efficient and visually appealing means of conveying complex ...

Bar graphs are graphical representations of statistical data in the form of strips or bars. This allows viewers to understand the difference between the various parameters of the data at a glance ...

Microsoft Excel is designed to organize and interpret small and large amounts of data. Building a curved graph in Excel based on X and Y data points is fairly simple. You begin by adding the data ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

Is your chart boring? Try Excel’s people chart to liven things up. Susan Harkins shows you how. A people chart is an infographic, which leads me to a second definition. An infographic tells a story, ...

To calculate the Consumer Price Index between two years in Excel, take a sum of all the amounts spent on the basket of products over those two years. Then use the following formula to find the CPI ...