How to Add an Overlay to Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010 can create a chart to illustrate numeric data from a worksheet. Excel's "Chart Tools" contain "Labels" that customize the chart area.

How to Add a Second Y-Axis on Excel & Make a Second Series at the End of the Chart. Microsoft Excel charts give you a large number of options for displaying the data in your spreadsheet.

Microsoft's spreadsheet program can do way more than you might realize. These are the hacks and tricks you need to know.

For this example, we’ll create a simple worksheet that displays the total July sales of each sales agent on the marketing team, then let Excel create several charts to compare the totals.

Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.

If you want to make your charts easy to interpret, insert a trendline or moving average line in Excel worksheet. See the list of steps to get it done in no time!

In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker.