Most Excel chart types are overkill, and these five prove it.

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Your client, Dave’s BBQ, a local independent restaurant, is interested in determining the effect on sales revenue of certain advertising strategies. Dave has weekly data on advertising dollars spent ...

When you dive into Excel, you quickly realize the power it holds for data analysis and prediction. Two of the most potent tools at your disposal are the TREND and FORECAST functions. These functions ...

Analysis of time-based series data can help us understand the prevailing trend in the market. One-click Forecast in Excel does this pretty well. As such, it can help you understand the current as well ...

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. Microsoft Excel offers a plethora of tools for ...

Microsoft Office's Excel application allows users to store, model and manipulate data sets. Excel spreadsheets organize this data into worksheets, each with a number of rows and columns. Each row or ...