You don't have to launch Excel when you need to view data relationships graphically. Microsoft Word contains tools to produce colorful, professional looking graphs. A general Area chart that has ...

Microsoft Excel is designed to organize and interpret small and large amounts of data. Building a curved graph in Excel based on X and Y data points is fairly simple. You begin by adding the data ...

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