One way to improve your spreadsheet is to present data in chart form, and Excel is a great program for doing just this. However, Excel's overwhelming number of menus often results in some of the most ...

Enter the “Column Column Chart” in Microsoft Excel, a clever visualization technique that combines category-level data with overall totals to tell a more complete story.

A burndown chart is easy to create in Excel, but setting up the data takes a good understanding of what the chart represents. You’ll need three columns, as shown in Figure A.