Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render it in a visual aid format.

Susan Harkins shows you how to format and unlock input cells in Excel at the same time by assigning a modified style.

If your subtotaling rows are lost in a sea of worksheet data, use this simple conditional formatting technique to make those rows easy to spot.

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.