In the chart, select the data series that you want to add up/down bars to. On the Chart Design tab, click Add Chart Element, point to Up/Down Bars, and then click Up/down Bars.

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter.

Copy the example data in the following table, and paste it in cell A1 of a new Excel worksheet. For formulas to show results, select them, press F2, and then press Enter.

At first, the chart doesn't yet resemble a box plot, as Excel draws stacked columns by default from horizontal and not vertical data sets. To reverse the chart axes, right-click on the chart, and …

A bell curve is a plot of normal distribution of a given data set. This article describes how you can create a chart of a bell curve in Microsoft Excel.

How to use conditional formatting in Excel to visually explore, analyze, and identify patterns and trends.

Estimates standard deviation based on a sample (ignores logical values and text in the sample). The standard deviation is a measure of how widely values are dispersed from the average …

Excel for the web can show status bar entries for average, count, numerical count, min, max, and sum. You can customize the status bar to show and hide any or all of them.

If your data represents a sample of the population, then compute the standard deviation using STDEV. For large sample sizes, STDEV.S and STDEV.P return approximately equal values.

Learn how to add a trendline in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to display visual data trends. Format a trend or moving average line to a chart.