there are a lot of different ways to
visualize data in Excel but sometimes
it's hard to know where to start
luckily the quick analysis tool offers a
convenient way to browse through many of
the different options so you can find a
good visualization even if you're not
sure exactly what you want this feature
was introduced in Excel 2013 so
unfortunately it isn't available in
older versions to get started select
your data
and you should see this little button in
the lower right corner of the selection
when you click it it will show a menu of
various features to analyze and
visualize your data and you can just
hover over the different options to see
a preview so you can very quickly try
out a variety of different
visualizations
if you find an option you like you can
click it to make it more permanent
although this step is optional
now what makes this feature really
interesting is that these options will
vary based on your data in this example
Excel noticed that we had a column for
the total so it displayed that as a line
chart to keep it separate from the
monthly data it's usually pretty smart
about this although it will sometimes
show options that don't work as well so
you'll just need to use your own
judgment but it's such a quick and easy
feature to use I recommend just diving
in and seeing what it can tell you about
your data
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