Keep charts simple and uncluttered. Dalio’s first chart doesn’t appear until after the fourteenth paragraph. Once it does appear, it’s remarkably simple yet tells a complex story.

While the process of putting an Excel chart in a Word document is simple, there are three ways that you can do it. Which option you choose will affect how portable the document is and how easy the ...

Word also has special tools for inserting shapes (for simple diagrams), SmartArt (for more complicated business diagrams), and even Excel-style charts that you create on the fly.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The world today is full of graphics as well as words. Charts, maps and diagrams are ubiquitous, from social ...

Pages is more than a potential Microsoft Word alternative--Apple's word processing app offers advanced functionality, too. Here's how to tap Apple's Pages app to create arresting tables and charts.