By using Excel or Google Sheets to create impactful graphs, you'll be able to captivate your audience, facilitate meaningful discussions, and drive home the key points of your presentation.

Dynamic Charts: Use Excel formulas or pivot tables to create charts that automatically update when your data changes. This is particularly useful for dashboards and interactive reports.

Excel can do more than just render typed numbers in tables of cells. It can take two columns of numbers and show a pictorial representation of how they relate to each other through a graph.

Creating a One-Sided Graph Two-sided graphs start with a normal, one-sided graph. By selecting all three columns of data, you can select the type of chart from Excel's Insert tab.

In this post we show you how to create a Bar Graph or Column Chart in Excel. Bar graphs could be both 2-D or 3-D depending on the editor you use.

Be creative with the scatter chart With the chart created, Excel defaults to the Design tab on the ribbon. Here, you have a choice of 11 visual styles via the Quick Layout option.

If you wish to calculate CPI in Excel and create its graph, please read through this article. Note: While creating this article, we are assuming the purchased quantity of products to be constant.

If you use Excel to create charts, it’s always good to know what customization options you have for your data entries. Excel allows you to display all sorts of data and possible variations.

(This data might later be used to create a graph in Excel.) Step 1: Select the cells you want to merge into and click on the Merge and Center command. Mark Coppock/Digital Trends ...

Reader Adam screencasts one of our best Microsoft Excel tips ever - how to make an instant, in-cell bar graph. Hit the play button above to see it in action. Nice job, Adam!