Excel makes it easy to incorporate a pattern, texture, or graphic file for elements in your chart. E.g., you can create a funny burger sales chart for your colleagues.

When you're plotting data over time, you may want to plot a trend line that describes the data. A trend line points out general trends in your data.

For certain chart types, you can add error bars to your chart. Error bars often are used to indicate "plus or minus" information that reflects uncertainty in the data.

Periodical processes like the volume of support service calls often have critical zones that indicate a severe problem that needs to be investigated and mitigated. This tip shows how to reveal and emphasize those critical zones for analysis.