How to create a simple histogram chart in Excel

A histogram chart is often confused with a bar chart because it displays data using bars of different heights. The 'true' histogram chart shows the distribution of numerical data. Each bar of the histogram represents the count of data values within the specified range. See more about different types of histogram charts in Excel.

How to add keyboard shortcuts for styles

There are several useful shortcuts that can help to change the style settings of a paragraph without the mouse. But you can add other shortcuts for your own style or any existing style in Word for Microsoft 365.

Five tricks to customize your mailbox view

These five simple customizations of Microsoft Office Outlook mailbox view will save you a lot of time and improve the overall productivity.

How to customize Navigation bar in Outlook

The Navigation bar in Outlook includes the buttons for switching to Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes views, and others. After the last Outlook updates, you can see the Navigation bar in two different places:

Adding Up/Down Bars to a line 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 available in two locations, along with the Chart Design tab of the ribbon:

Competition chart with residual data

When analyzing or presenting data in comparison or competitive charts, it is useful to see the points scored or results achieved and the remaining points to complete the Goal. For example, you can easily create a simple competition chart with residual data:

How to create a combination chart in PowerPoint

Is it really necessary to create a chart in Excel and then import it to your PowerPoint presentation? Here you will see how to create a complex chart in PowerPoint that later will be used for adding additional effects.

Creating a simple competition chart

Competition is an integral part of the development of any company and community. From childhood, we compete for our favorite toys among peers, for leadership in games, and so on. Healthy competition helps to achieve many goals: from quickly solving problems to choosing the most appropriate strategy.

How to make a custom background for the PowerPoint slide

Sometimes you need to add pictures on your slide like a custom background to the PowerPoint slide or make some effects for your presentation.
This tip is about creating a custom background for the PowerPoint slide.

How to customize your local Excel chart settings

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