For even the most new-to-the-program users, compiling a graph in Microsoft Excel is fairly intuitive. Excel offers a one-click option on its "Insert" menu to take data on a spreadsheet and render ...

Right-click the pie chart and select "Add Data Labels." Labels appear on the chart segments showing their values. Right-click the chart again and select "Format Data Labels." A dialog box opens.

I can't find an easy way to do this for ALL the data series in a chart.Say I have100 students5 different colleges at the university the students could attend, some might double major and attend ...

Data labels eliminate that detour. Right-click the series and select Add Data Labels. But don’t stop there—positioning matters.

Image: PixieMe/Adobe Stock There are lots of ways to highlight a specific element in a Microsoft Excel chart. You might add data labels or use pictures instead of a plain column in a column chart.

Add dynamic and custom data labels to highlight key insights, making sure they update automatically with changes in the dataset.

Excel Ideas helps you extract the key information from a spreadsheet, but there's currently a limited range of insights available and some data formatting may be required.