Few programs can touch Excel when it comes to churning out charts and business graphics. Web Worker Daily offers seven tips on improving your Excel charts and graphics, starting with "speed charts ...

In this formula, "|" is the vertical glyph character (enclosed in double quotes) often accessed by pressing Shift or Fn at ...

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.

In Excel, select the graph you want to include in your presentation. Right-click it and select Copy. Open your PowerPoint and head to the desired slide. Right-click anywhere and select Paste.

Excel provides 10 different chart types, such as bar, pie, column, area, etc. Select the Insert tab, then choose the Recommended Charts icon in the Charts group on the Ribbon bar.

7. Smart Art Available in Excel 2007, Smart Art enables you to quickly produce a range of presentation graphics, including flow charts, block lists and hierarchy diagrams such as family trees.

If the word Group is dimmed out, that means you have failed to properly select the graphics you want to freeze. You still can move the grouped graphics, but now they all will move together, ...

Unlike these programs, Excel does not have a menu option that lets you insert a watermark into a worksheet. The graphics options available in Excel provide an alternative for users of this software.

Q. I just loaded Office XP and I expect great things from it—such as being able to easily add a graphic in an Excel 2000 header, which always has been more complicated than unscrambling the books of a ...

Excel includes many calendar templates for additional options. Set up graph paper All you want is a few sheets of grid/graph paper in a hurry. No problem. Open a blank Excel spreadsheet.

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!