How Excel Charts Work A chart has an x-axis range and a y-axis range to show the correlation between two different data sets. The x-axis is the horizontal category line.

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 ...

How to Chart the Frequency of a Data Set on Excel. Plotting the frequency of data falling within numeric ranges illustrates the diversity of your data. As an example, a teacher might wish to ...

That’s because the chart, by default, references a specific data range, DynamicChart1:A1:E3. We need to change that reference to the dynamic ranges we just created, as follows: ...

To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s take a tour of some of the most useful charts, starting with the basic ones and moving to the more advanced. To follow along, ...

Learn how to show charts with hidden data cells in Excel. When there is data that is hidden in your table, Excel will not show that information in the chart.

In this example, the data is squeezed into a narrower corridor in the chart than is necessary because the y-axis range (0 to 3000) is broader than the data requires (655 to 2424).

Click the range option and enter the cell range of the data you want to chart. (For example, if the data you want to chart is located in cells A3 through D7 of the Excel worksheet, enter A3:D7.) ...

In Microsoft Excel, you can create a Half Pie Chart if your data range has a total. A Half Pie Chart is a 180 degrees graph that represents a composition as a whole.

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp.