If you want to combine more than two different data series with common horizontal and different vertical values, you could not just add another axis to the chart. You need to combine several charts into one chart.

Sometimes you want to show several axes in one chart to demonstrate each data series with different formatting and with different axis in one chart.

This tip is about how to create a pie chart such as in popular glossy magazines.

Sometimes you can give your charts a more impressive view by showing deviations of some real process from its expected flow.

Excel proposes an easy and very fast way to create a chart by using shortcut keys.

If you have several parts of something one, you can demonstrate each item in one pie chart. But sometimes you want to demonstrate the changes in those parts, and a doughnut chart will help you to do this.

The Expressiveness of business graphics sometimes determines the success or failure of the presentation, and you can achieve a better perception of the audience by using in charts intuitively obvious representation of data by arrows.

Most reports and presentations contain a lot of boring charts that describe the state before and after some event, action, etc. However, using simple visual tricks, you can shake up the audience and draw attention to the essence of your presentation.

The creation of a large number of visually consistent charts to represent different data is a time consuming and error prone task unless you know how to copy formatting between charts.

Every workbook uses a palette of 56 colors, but you can change the palette for the current workbook or even change the default colors for new workbooks.