It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

When the Fill Effects dialog box appears, click the Gradient or Pattern tabs, which allow you to mix and match custom colors and predesigned styles.

Flash Fill, introduced to Microsoft Excel in 2013, was a time-saving game changer. It recognizes patterns in your data, and uses those patterns to suggest ways to automatically fill in the rest of ...

Combo charts in Excel are a powerful way to combine different types of charts into one. You can merge bar and column charts, line charts, and even pie charts to create a single, cohesive visual ...

An curved arrow pointing right. We all know and love the Auto Fill feature in Excel. Microsoft went a step further in Excel 2013 and created Flash Fill. This new feature recognizes patterns in ...

Dropdown lists Isolate variable data in a data area Exception reporting with conditional formatting Five Excel tools you should use 1. Flash fill Excel’s Flash Fill feature makes it easy to fill data ...

You can change the default color of chart, graph, treemap, etc. in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the helpof these simple steps.