When you select a range of data, Excel displays a Quick Analysis button in the lower-right corner of the range. But this option can be turned off.

When Excel is installed, the default chart is a 2-D Column chart but you can easily change the default chart type.

To emphasize differences between data in the chart it will be interesting to create a column chart in which the color of each column depends on the value displayed.

Sometimes you want to show a single chart that consists of series that use different chart types.

When you create a chart with a scroll bar, it will be useful create a chart with all data to see which data fragment you see in the scrolling chart.

Sometimes you need to create a chart that shows a large data amount. Then it would be useful to insert a scroll bar in your chart.

In this tip we will show how to different charts could be combined in the one chart. In example we will combine a Bubble chart with an Area chart:

If you have a line chart with two different data series, you might want to compare those series at each point along the horizontal axis. There are two different options for this, available in two locations along the Layout tab of the ribbon.

If you need to create a simple Gantt chart, see Creating a Gantt chart or Gantt chart with progress. To add events to your Gantt chart, see Progress Gantt chart with events. This tip will help you to extend those charts by a vertical line that shows the current date.

Gantt chart is a pervasive project management tool intended to reveal task management problems. But you can enrich it with additional information like project milestones, presentation dates and similar events.