Worksheets created in Excel can often be difficult to comprehend since they include a lot of information and have a complex structure. Putting a border around the cells in a worksheet can help you differentiate between the various parts, draw attention to certain data like as column headings or total rows, and make your spreadsheets more presentable and visually appealing. In Excel, a border is a line that surrounds an individual cell or a group of cells. In most cases, cell boundaries are utilized to highlight a particular region of a spreadsheet in order to draw attention to that region. ... Read More

Consider an example that you are researching the relationship between the purchases and the prices. Now you want to keep this data in an Excel workbook with the best fit curve of the data. You can add the best fit line or curve to your data using an Excel workbook and it’s easy to do. Adding best fit line/curve and formula in Excel Kindly note this mentioned can be used in Excel 2013 or the latest versions. Consider you have given your data of purchases and prices in an Excel workbook. It is possible to add the best fit line ... Read More

We know that we can add pictures or contents to the header or footer in an Excel workbook, which will be displayed while printing. Here you can also add color to the background of headers or footers. There is no built-in function available to do it. But I can show you some ways to achieve this. Add background color to header or footer by fill color Below are the steps that you need to follow to achieve this. Step 1 Open an Excel workbook, click on Page Layout and then click on Page Setup as shown in the below screenshot. ... Read More

Have you ever attempted to include an average line or grand total line in an Excel pivot chart? It appears difficult to show or add an average/grand total line like you would in a typical chart. Create Pivot table Let’s understand step by step with an example. Step 1 In the first, we must create a sample data for creating pivot table as shown in the below screenshot. Step 2 Now, select the data range from A1:B15. Click on the Insert tab on the toolbar ribbon and then select pivot table option to insert pivot table for the selected ... Read More

If your worksheet has a column chart or a line chart, you may find that you need to add arrows to the column chart in order to show how the values are related to one another in terms of increasing or decreasing. In point of fact, there is not a direct method for adding the arrows to the column bar; nevertheless, you can draw the arrow shapes and copy them to the column chart. In this article, I'll discuss the process of adding arrows to a line or column chart. Add arrows to column chart in excel Step 1 In ... Read More

In the Excel workbook by default author will be the name of the person who creates the Excel workbook and it usually is the one name. At times workbook may be created by multiple/several persons, in that case, it requires adding the author names to the Excel workbook. Here you will see how to add and change the author names in an Excel workbook. How to quickly add authors for Excel workbook Below steps guides you, on how to add the other authors to the current Excel workbook. Step 1 Open an Excel workbook, click on File and then select ... Read More

Excel makes it simple to combine two data series into a single chart. Now, only one data point must be added to an existing Excel line chart. Add a single data point in an excel line chart Let’s understand step by step with an example. Step 1 In the first, we must create a sample data for chart in an excel sheet in columnar format as shown in the below screenshot. Step 2 Then, select the cells in the A2:B8 range. Click on Insert tool bar and select chart>Line>2-D Line to display the Line graph. Below is the screenshot ... Read More

You can use the scrollbar feature to show a chart with lots of data, just by dragging the scrollbar, you will see the data changing continuously while it's being displayed in the chart. If a lot of data needs to be shown, you can add the scrollbar. However, there is a tricky part in Excel when it comes to adding a scrollbar to a chart, so follow these steps step by step to finish this task. Add a Scrollbar in Excel You have the following data range wherein you want to add the scrollbar chart to the Excel worksheet. ... Read More

The Y axis is automatically added to the left-hand side of an Excel chart while it is being created. You may need to switch it to your right hand in some circumstances, but how would you go about doing that? You will learn about the workarounds in this article. Add a right hand/side y axis to an excel chart Let’s understand step by step with an example. Step 1 In the first, we must create a sample data for chart in an excel sheet in columnar format as shown in the below screenshot. Step 2 Then, select the cells ... Read More

The purpose of this article is to show you how you can use a formula in Excel in order to add a specified character before each word in a cell. Add a Character before each word in a cell with the Formula The following instructions will help you to add one or a few characters before each word that appears in an Excel cell. Step 1 Open an Excel workbook, select a cell blank cell and enter the below formula mentioned formula into the formula bar and then press Enter key. =”Character”&SUBSTITUTE(cell reference, ’’ “, “character”) Consider you ... Read More