In Microsoft Excel, to draw attention to a specific marker in a line chart, drop in a thin line, think of it as a marker.

It's easy to turn an Excel chart into a visually compelling object. Susan Harkins walks through the steps for jazzing up data points with a simple formatting trick.

Now, out of the three data sets used to create the bubble chart, two-axis of the chart in a series of XY coordinates are shown. After that, a third set shows the important data points.