So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

A cluster chart is like a bar chart except that it clusters several bars into a category and displays each cluster separately from the rest. For example, you could categorize quarterly sales data ...

In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker.

Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.

For instance, you can create a chart that displays two unique sets of data. Use Excel's chart wizard to make a combo chart that combines two chart types, each with its own data set.