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.

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.

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

Microsoft Excel can allow users to move charts from one spreadsheet to another or to move it up and down on the same spreadsheet. You can also size a chart by using the dragging technique.

You can lock the position of a chart in Excel spreadsheet so that it doesn't move or resize when you include more columns and change cell width. Learn how!

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.