In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

When you select a range, Excel 2013 pops up a "Quick Analysis" box. Click on it, and you're given a selection of recommended formatting, chart, calculation, and pivot table options.

How to Format a Color Chart in Excel. Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to ...

The interface is simpler in Excel 2013, with only the Design and Format tabs to choose from. In addition, a set of icons appears outside the top right edge of a chart when it is selected.

How to Format the Layout in a Pie Chart. Microsoft Excel's chart feature makes it pretty simple to "get your piece of the pie" into a spreadsheet, but once you've added that visual, it may seem ...

Learn 10 cool techniques that will make your Excel charts way sexier.

Yet, one of the biggest mistakes marketers make is trying to wrangle static data instead of taking advantage of Excel’s table formatting, which basically turns your data range into an ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.