There's an easy way to create stacked bar charts in Excel. The real challenge is organizing data to make sure everything shows up as effectively as possible. This guide shows when to use stacked ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

The recipes suggest that one use pie charts for parts of a whole, column or bar charts for comparisons, line graphs for trends, histograms for distributions and scatter plots for relationships.

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs. That’s ...