Excel can do more than just render typed numbers in tables of cells. It can take two columns of numbers and show a pictorial representation of how they relate to each other through a graph.

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.

Instead, you might want Excel to display negative values in red, or with parentheses, or both. Microsoft Excel provides two ways to do so: a format and a conditional format.