Luckily, a few subtle tweaks can turn your Excel charts from sad to slick. This isn't a design tip, but it's fundamental to ...

A bar chart is a diagram that uses rows of horizontal or vertical bars to show information. The title tells you what the bar chart is about. The vertical and horizontal lines are called axes.

subdivides each bar or block into characters that show the contribution of the values of variable to that bar or block. PROC CHART uses the first character of each value to fill in the portion of the ...

“Imagine a pie chart that shows Visuals at 42 percent, Numbers at 36 percent, Stupid Jokes at 15 percent and Random Complaints at 7 percent. Now let’s convert that to a bar chart.” ...

One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form, and Excel is a great program for doing just this. However, Excel's overwhelming number of menus often results in some of the ...