Have you ever struggled to make sense of a dataset with too many categories or time-based data? It’s a common challenge—how do you present individual contributions while still showing the bigger ...

Stacked charts in Microsoft Excel are a practical way to display three or more data series. A clustered chart is very similar to a stacked chart, and displays clustered columns that compare values ...

Stacked column/bar and 3D stacked column/bar charts are particularly useful for comparing the percentages of each value in a total. This means that the cumulative pieces of each stacked element ...

I’m starting a series on dashboards because I think creating sexy dashboards is a critical skill every marketer needs to know. It’s going to be a long series — but by the time we’re finished, you’ll ...

Among its many features, Microsoft Excel enables you to incorporate charts, providing a way to add visual appeal to your business reports. Each of Excel's 12 chart types has different features that ...

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp.

I've been tinkering with MS Excel/Powerpoint (2010) and I am unable to create multiple stacked columns per field on the x-axis. For instance, under each "payload" x-axis entry, I would like to make 2 ...

We hope this tutorial helps you understand how to create a progress chart in Microsoft Excel; if you have questions about the tutorial, let us know in the comments.