A flow chart usually shows steps in a task, process, or workflow. There are many different SmartArt templates predefined in Excel that you can use to illustrate the process, including some complex templates with pictures.

A flowchart or flow chart usually shows steps of the task, process, or workflow. There are many different SmartArt templates predefined in MS Excel that you can use to illustrate the process, including visually appealing templates with pictures.
However, if you want to use different shapes and a complex topology, it is better to create your own flowchart.

Simple line and bar charts often attract little or no interest in the audience. Still, Excel allows you to attract attention to your data by emphasizing change direction, difference, or period.

Very few Excel users pay attention to the chart axes, but there are some tricks with axes that will help you to improve your visualizations with little or no efforts.

To make your data more information, you can combine different chars in many ways.

Gantt charts illustrate project schedules and, thus, often used by project managers. Project management tools like Microsoft Project are better suited for Gantt charts, but it is easy to create a Gantt chart in Excel following the simple steps.

Several different Excel features can make your presentation less boring:

The default installation of Excel has reasonable presets for chart types and colors, but you can change those defaults according to your own preferences.

There are several useful features in Excel that can help to create your charts, which automatically change visual appearance depending on data.

There are several different charts in Excel that can help you to create a perfect progress illustration.