“Excel isn’t explicitly a data visualization tool, it’s a spreadsheet,” says Excel developer and consultant Jon Peltier. However, one of Excel’s strengths is its flexibility, he adds.

While Excel's charts are excellent tools for displaying complex data in more understandable ways, sometimes, you might want to quickly visualize your numbers in a simpler way that also takes up ...

To create data bars in Excel, select your cells and then choose data bars from Conditional Formatting.