For even the most new-to-the-program users, compiling a graph in Microsoft Excel is fairly intuitive. Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render it ...

Microsoft Excel can be a powerful resource for managing all sorts of data, but it's particularly useful for keeping track of your business contacts. Having all of your contacts or potential leads in a ...

The list of ‘anythings’ Excel can do keeps growing, as new versions with more templates and better features are released. Many prefer the simplicity of Excel over Word because it offers a huge, very ...

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

I have names and addresses, etc., in an Excel 2002 spreadsheet and I want to use that information to print out address labels on the standard mailing labels (the sheets with 3 columns, and 10 rows.

Save time on status decks with a reusable Excel timeline chart. Data lives in a table, so new milestones update the timeline ...

It’s the end of the month, and you’re staring at a mountain of Excel spreadsheets that need updating. You sigh, knowing that hours of tedious work lie ahead. But what if I told you there’s a way 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 ...

Q. I spend a substantial amount of time entering data into Excel. Do you have any suggestions on ways to make this faster and/or more efficient? A. One of the best data-entry tools to use in Excel is ...