When you select a range, Excel 2013 pops up a "Quick Analysis" box. Click on it, and you're given a selection of recommended formatting, chart, calculation, and pivot table options.

How to Format the Layout in a Pie Chart. Microsoft Excel's chart feature makes it pretty simple to "get your piece of the pie" into a spreadsheet, but once you've added that visual, it may seem ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer. For example, you ...

Yet, one of the biggest mistakes marketers make is trying to wrangle static data instead of taking advantage of Excel’s table formatting, which basically turns your data range into an ...

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

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart. Cond ...

Image: 200dgr/Shutterstock The article, Use a custom format in Excel to display easier to read millions uses a custom format to make large values more readable. For instance, 1,200,000 displays as ...

You can easily make a pie chart in Excel to make data easier to understand. The process only takes 5 steps.