Naming Basics Best practice recommendations are to create a chart placing independent variables on the horizontal, x-axis and dependent variables on the vertical, y-axis.

How to Get Subscript in Excel Graphs. When you create a graph in Microsoft Excel 2010, the axis labels and legend titles are drawn from the information in the cells surrounding the data. However ...

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

The Gauge chart is known as a dial or speedometer chart. Learn how to create a Gauge Chart in Microsoft Excel by following this tutorial.

Charts are great for showing comparisons and trends. In this tutorial, we will explain how to apply layouts and styles in a chart in Excel.

We discuss a comment on a previous post stating that the text of labels on the vertical axis of graphs must be horizontal by discussing the pros and cons of four possible positions for these labels.

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how.

Create graph paper in minutes. Make address labels This one is a cinch for Excel and you can add lots of mini pictures to the labels to jazz up the aesthetics or use your company logo.