Like cookie cutters, Microsoft Office templates help you create documents that include a default set of objects. Microsoft Publisher, for instance, allows you to design a template one time and use it ...

Microsoft Word enables you to insert a bubble chart to compare sets of three data series: x values, y values and z (size) values. You can find the Bubble and 3-D Bubble chart templates listed in the X ...

Excel charts get the job done, but these tools make your data easier on the eyes.

For the past few years, I've been trying to understand how to make graphs using RRDtool (Round-Robin Database tool) after failing miserably to understand MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) before ...