In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting is a wonderful “automatic” feature that allows you to formats cells based on the value of those cells or the value of the formulas in those cells ...

The Pointy Haired Dilbert blog runs down the details of this nifty Excel trickery, which uses a formula and an image to conditionally show or hide the chart —neat stuff sure to impress the boss.