Descriptive labels on an Excel chart enhance its readability and help you interpret the information the chart contains. Whether naming comes in the form of text, numbers or a combination, both the x ...

Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

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 Chart Wizard of earlier versions may be gone in Excel 2007, but creating charts is still as easy as ever. Beyond building basic charts there are various techniques you can use to make your charts ...

The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does. The X-axis contains either strings of text or a date under each set of data ...

Turn generic columns into custom visuals by adding floating totals, nesting series, and layering simultaneous data labels.

Microsoft Excel is well known for creating charts for marketing purposes, and it has features to perform various calculations. Charts are a graphical representation of your data, and they make showing ...