In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

Map I only recently discovered that you can create colored maps in Excel, probably because the option to do so is not in the usual Charts drop-down menu.

How to Add a Chart to Another Chart in Excel. Microsoft Excel gives you a number of tools to build, update and manipulate graphs and charts. If you want to take the data from one chart and place ...

There are several ways to add text next to a Gantt chart in Excel. Because Gantt charts are made from modified bar charts, the text that normally appears on the chart will not always be relevant ...

A treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of data and makes it easy to spot patterns. Learn how to create a treemap chart in Excel.

Before Excel 2016, Power Map was a popular free 3D geospatial visualization add-in for Excel. Now it’s free, built into Excel for Microsoft 365, and has been renamed 3D Maps.

Microsoft Excel makes great charts, but often they’re not eye-pleasing. Learn how to change formats to yield a professional-looking chart.

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.