VIDEO: If you create a lot of charts in Excel, you should definitely be making your own chart templates.

VIDEO: If you create a lot of charts in Excel, you should definitely be making your own chart templates.

By default, however, those charts aren’t too visually exciting. Fortunately, Excel’s Drawing toolbar makes it easy to customize the backgrounds and colors in your charts to make them stand out.

Custom charts represent complex data and are often used in Marketing, such as the Step Chart. How to create a Step Chart in Excel Follow the methods below to make a Step Chart in Microsoft Excel: ...

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is among the most versatile business tools. Here’s a full guide on how to create a simple and effective Gantt chart in Excel.

Creating a custom chart and moving it to its own workbook page makes it easier to read and more user-friendly.

Helen Bradley demonstrates Excel formatting tricks that will help you when things don't work as planned. Learn her methods now.

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.