Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always ...

Microsoft Excel doesn't always provide everything you need when it generates graphs. For example, by default, your line graph doesn't included a title. However, this doesn't mean you have to go ...

To animate a line graph in PowerPoint, you need to open the slide, draw the Graph add the labels and then animate the graph as explained below. let us see this in detail. Launch PowerPoint. Change the ...

Labeling all or some of your data with text can help tell a story — even when your graph is using other cues like color and size. ggplot has a couple of built-in ways of doing this, and the ggrepel ...

The ease with which you can create a line graph in Excel on your PC or Mac will do much to dispel the misconception that the program is arcane and unapproachable. With just three clicks of a mouse (or ...

Adding a graph in a spreadsheet is no big deal as long as you know the process. However, do you know that you can make a curved line graph in Excel or Google Sheets? If not, you should check out this ...

The list of ‘anythings’ Excel can do keeps growing, as new versions with more templates and better features are released. Many prefer the simplicity of Excel over Word because it offers a huge, very ...