Indeed, you can use Excel to create heat maps for pretty much anything, from displaying your sports team's on-field strengths to showing how climate change is impacting temperatures over time.

How to Import an Excel Chart Into MapInfo. When it comes to communicating data, a map that displays geographic data as well as numeric figures can be a more effective visual than a basic chart ...

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.

A treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of data and makes it easy to spot patterns. Learn how to create a treemap chart in Excel.

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

Excel 2016 gives you six new chart styles. The three we explore here make it easier to compare data and show hierarchies and other relationships.

Graphs in Excel help break down your data into an easily digestible format. Here’s how to make a graph in Microsoft Excel.

Are you constantly changing your Excel chart's data range as new information becomes available? Mary Ann Richardson shows how to set up the chart to automatically update as you add new rows of ...

A Gantt chart maps out deadlines within a project. Chandoo's Excel Gantt chart combines a calendar and to-do list to display what has to be completed when in a good-looking table layout.

Therefore, using Excel to first create your charts and then importing them into PowerPoint allows you to create presentations with chart data that is more accurate.