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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 ...

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 ...

With features like auto-summing, chart making and the ability to track numbers from multiple lists, budgets or accounts, Microsoft Excel has become an essential business tool. You can use it to keep ...

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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 ...

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, ...

How to create a YOY comparison chart using a PivotChart in Excel Your email has been sent Need to know your organization's YOY results? Susan Harkins will show you how to make a PivotChart in ...

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 ...

Have you ever come across a Wall Street Journal chart and thought, “Wow, I wish I could create something that polished”? Whether you’re preparing for a big presentation, crafting a report, or simply ...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the greatest spreadsheet application from Redmond, and there’s a good reason so many number crunchers use it for all of their number crunching needs. While using Microsoft ...