Displaying values on a map chart is more meaningful than handing someone a sheet of data. Thanks to Microsoft Excel's Geography data type, creating a map chart is easier than you might think.

Although you don't have to format your data as an Excel table, doing so will make life easier if you add more rows or columns, and Excel generally reads data formatted as a table ...

The map chart is incomplete because there is a misspelling in the data. The Data tab in Excel, with the Charts button ...

To create a map chart, select the data you want to chart, then select Insert > Maps, then select the map chart. Note that in some instances, Excel might have a problem creating the map — for ...

There are other charts available in Excel other than the most common ones mentioned, such as the Treemap chart. A Treemap chart provides a hierarchical view of data and makes it easy to spot patterns.

With a new map chart type in Excel, users can now create visualizations at the national, state, county or ZIP code level directly in Excel. The map charts are powered by Bing Maps, and are created ...