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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 ...

If you’re working with a large amount of data, you often need to freeze a row and column in Excel to be able to navigate and see column/row names. This is simpler than you think, and today we’ll show ...

There's an easy way to create stacked bar charts in Excel. The real challenge is organizing data to make sure everything shows up as effectively as possible. This guide shows when to use stacked bar ...

Q. My supervisor wants me to include more data visualizations in my projects. Do you have any suggestions? A. Data visualization transforms raw data into graphical representations, making complex ...

If you’ve ever worked with an enormous Excel spreadsheet, you’ll know just how daunting all those rows and columns can be. Once you’re over 10 or 15 different values and labels, it can get pretty ...

Placing spreadsheet data into a table quickly formats it and makes it easy to work with and analyze. Here’s how to use this basic yet powerful Excel tool. Tables are one of the fundamental tools in ...