Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products across multiple departments, or within ...

Microsoft Excel can perform numerous statistical functions, as well as create charts from statistical data. Statistical data includes numeric variables or word variables, also called categorical ...

One of the issues with formatting charts in Excel is that there are so many menus that it's sometimes impossible to find the command you want to implement. What's more, many of the chart formatting ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago I announced a bad graph contest to try to encourage software vendors to improve their offerings. Readers nominated a number of bad graphs for the contest. This post discusses some of the ...

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 ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...