Create an Organizational Chart With Excel's SmartArt Tool In Excel, you use SmartArt to create a graphic with an organizational chart layout.

Click back to Excel and copy the next piece of data to use on the PowerPoint organizational chart. Right-click into the next text box and paste it in.

Figure B The Excel add-in inserts a chart populated with dummy data. How to connect the Excel data to the chart At this point, you’re ready to connect the chart to real data.

Note: When creating bar charts with percentage data, Excel often sets the axis maximum to 1.2 by default, so it’s best to manually set it to 1.0 for accurate progress bars.

Now we have a Progress Bar Chart. How to make a Progress Circle Chart in Excel Launch Excel. Enter some data on your spreadsheet or use existing data. Highlight the data range. Click the Insert tab.

So, you need some eye-popping visuals to show off your top sales numbers for that meeting in 40 minutes but data, not design, is your forte. No problem. With Excel 2013—even if you’ve never ...

Step 2: Make an Excel Bar Chart To start to visualize your data, you’ll first create an Excel stacked bar chart from the spreadsheet. Select the “Start date” column, so it’s highlighted.

Image: 200degrees/Adobe Stock Area charts do a great job of exposing trends in Microsoft Excel data. The good news is that they’re easy to create; the bad news is that the default chart is often ...