Adding Data Sets One at a Time Launch Excel and load the spreadsheet containing the data you want to plot. Select the first set of X and Y axis data for your chart.

Once you've mastered some of the more straightforward Excel charts, try using some that offer more specific functions and data visualization.

How to Make an X-Y Scatter Plot in Microsoft Excel. Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers.

Each of these new column pairs will be used to plot a series of smaller concentric bull’s-eye circles. When plotted on an Excel Scatter Chart, these data points will form a total of four circles, ...

You may think you already know all about them, but Excel keeps adding more, including some that can handle complex information. To experience the breadth of Excel’s data visualization offerings, let’s ...

The Gauge chart is known as a dial or speedometer chart. Learn how to create a Gauge Chart in Microsoft Excel by following this tutorial.

Learn how to create a Pie Chart in Excel with percentages, without numbers, with words, multiple data or columns, etc. A pie chart helps understand data spread.

Excel won't display hidden data in a chart unless you flip the switch. Learn which option controls this behavior.

It's time to dump the pie charts and move to donuts or even waterfalls to show off your data in ways people can better grasp.

If you want to add labels to the bubbles in an Excel bubble chart, you have to do it after you create the chart. Mary Ann Richardson explains what you need to do to add a data label to each bubble.

Excel 2016's many new features include six new chart types. Here we cover Histogram, Pareto, and Waterfall, which cover statistical, trend, and other relationships.