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.

How to Create a Summary Chart in Excel. Excel spreadsheets can often contain large amounts of data ranging across broad categories. For example, a sales spreadsheet might record sales of products ...

How to Create a Product-Positioning Map in Excel. Understanding where your product fits within the market is critical to its success. One simple, effective tool that marketers use is a product ...

Microsoft recently made some significant enhancements to its Visio add-in for Excel, enabling users to create Visio diagrams from within Excel. Here's how it works.

To create a Mind Map in Excel, you can use Shapes, Text Boxes, and Connectors, or use SmartArt for a more structured approach.

Figure D The people chart is based on the survey data in the Table. How to customize Excel’s people chart The original settings are adequate, but you might want to customize the chart a bit.

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.

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.