A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is among the most versatile business tools. Here’s a full guide on how to create a simple and effective Gantt chart in Excel.

Here’s how to make a Gantt chart in Excel to accommodate complex agile project management within the familiar tool.

Charts and sparklines are powerful data visualization tools in Excel. Here’s a guide to the most popular chart types in Excel and how to best use them.

How to customize the Bubble Chart in Excel In terms of customizing the bubble chart, this is a fairly simple task as well. Then again it all boils down to what you want to accomplish.

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

In Excel 2003, choose Chart from the Insert menu. We won’t actually use this graph, but it’s wise to create a default chart so you can see how well the chart window will accommodate the data.