Two weeks ago I announced a bad graph contest to try to encourage software vendors to improve their offerings. Readers nominated a number of bad graphs for the contest. This post discusses some of the ...

Documenting 3D printing data reveals trends, helps with budgeting, and boosts confidence in the printing process. Analyzing printing data saves time and money, aids in spotting patterns for supply ...

What do you think of when you see the words "Microsoft Excel?" For many, it's "cells," "numbers," and "formulas." However, there's much more to the program than that! You can also create stunning 3D ...

Microsoft Office Excel contains a data analysis add-in that allows to to perform a Fourier analysis of a series of numbers. So named for the French mathematician who developed the analytic technique ...

3D models are 3-dimensional objects, but did you know that you could insert a 3D animated model in your Excel worksheet? Microsoft Excel contains a built-in feature that enables users to insert ...

Excel is probably Microsoft’s most popular developer tool. With a built-in functional programming language that now supports lambdas and variables, Excel has become a tool that people build businesses ...

The interval between the gridlines in an Excel chart is typically blank, but you can highlight the intervals using an alternating pattern by changing the formatting for the gridlines themselves.

It isn't exactly a secret that this has been a huge year for Microsoft product releases. Although I have been working hard to try to keep up with everything coming out of Redmond, I am only one person ...

We all know that Excel can make some gorgeous charts and graphs, but if you are like 30 Rock's Liz Lemon and don't know your scatter plot from your triangle graph ("I don't know. It sounded real!"), ...