Microsoft Excel has more dataviz capabilities than you may realize. Find out how to make your data stand out with charts, PivotTables, sparklines, slicers and more.

The Sparkline feature, introduced in Excel 2013, lets you select data from rows or columns of cells and display line, column or handy win/loss charts. Jim Desmond It’s easy!

You can make a line graph in Excel in a matter of seconds using data already entered into the spreadsheet.

Launch Excel and open the spreadsheet with the chart you want to edit. Click to select the chart on which you want to highlight the intervals.

To generate the chart, select the data, click the Insert tab, click the Line option in the Charts group, and select the first (and simplest) option. In Excel 2003, choose Chart from the Insert menu.