Bored of the basics?

Want to take your graphs to the next level?

Wondering what’s possible in Microsoft Excel?

From A to Z, here are some of the amazing data visualizations that you can make inside of good ol’ Excel.

Area

Bars

Bar’c

Box and Whisker

Bubble Charts

Bump

To visualize rankings over time.

Clustered Bars

Clustered Columns

Columns

Combo Charts

Data Bars

Diverging Stacked Bars

Donuts

Dot Plots

Heat Maps

Heat Tables

Histograms

Interactive Dashboards

Lines

Lollipops

Network Maps

One-Pagers

Made entirely within Excel and saved as a PDF (not pasted into Word).

Overlapping Bars & Columns

Pie Charts

Population Pyramids

Scatter Plots

Series of Matching Dashboards

One per student, per school, per state, etc. Create one template and let Excel handle the rest.

Slopes

Small Multiples Bars

Small Multiples Lines

Sparklines

Stacked Bars

Stacked Columns

Static Dashboards

Sunburst Diagrams

Tile Grid Heat Maps

Tile Grid Trendline Maps

Tree Maps

Waffles