How to Make Columns Wider in Excel. When you add text to a cell in your business spreadsheet, that cell will not widen automatically to accommodate your text unless you change a few settings.

Use Excel’s combination chart feature to layer the total column behind the individual columns, creating a visually distinct representation of cumulative data.

Have you ever tried to drag the header columns in an Excel spreadsheet to make them fit the text? I have and just when I think I’ve got it right, a quick glimpse down the line of columns usually ...

The simple presentation and colored columns make for easy visual comparisons. Column charts also come in a variety of different forms, including clustered columns, stacked columns and 3-D columns.

The Switch Row or Column feature allows you to swap data over the axis. Learn how to switch Rows and Columns in Microsoft Excel.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.

Pie charts are used to show percentages of the whole, and Line charts excel with data trends. The remaining chart designs include Area, Stock, Surface, Combo, Pareto, Histogram, and Sunburst.

A simple trick lets you copy source column's width to a target column in Excel. Refer to the steps in the post to copy column widths in Excel.

When plotted on an Excel Scatter Chart, these data points will form a total of four circles, effectively converting a scatter chart into a bull’s-eye chart. Your updated table containing the ...