Transforming a simple line chart into an adaptable timeline is easier than you think.

Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works. Even though Visio is easily one of ...

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

Excel charts get the job done, but these tools make your data easier on the eyes.

Microsoft Excel 2010 gives you a number of graphing options so you can display the information in your spreadsheet in many different ways. If you are dealing with yearly data, such as sales by year, ...

Excel’s REPT function is a hidden gem that can transform your bar charts from ordinary to extraordinary. This function allows you to repeat text a specified number of times, allowing you to simulate ...

One option for sharing reports with your team is to simply rattle off numbers. Think something like this: "We allocated 10% of operating budget to maintenance, 15% to hardware upgrades, 18% to ...

In Microsoft Office, a SmartArt graphic ranges from the graphical list and process diagrams to more complex graphics such as Venn diagrams and Organization charts. SmartArt is visually used to ...

As two peas in the same Microsoft Office Suite pod, PowerPoint and Excel were built to work seamlessly with each other, including giving users the ability to cut from one and paste right into the ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

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