In Microsoft Excel 2010, a chart sits over the worksheet and provides a visual expression of the underlying data. You can use a chart in conjunction with elements on the worksheet to get a better ...

By default, however, those charts aren’t too visually exciting. Fortunately, Excel’s Drawing toolbar makes it easy to customize the backgrounds and colors in your charts to make them stand out.

One of the advantages of using Excel as your spreadsheet application is that you can display a simple piece of information just as effectively as a complicated collection of data. For instance, you ...

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