Visualizing TREND and FORECAST Results Select the data range including your original data and the TREND or FORECAST results. Go to the Insert tab and choose a chart type, such as Line or Scatter.

If you want to make your charts easy to interpret, insert a trendline or moving average line in Excel worksheet. See the list of steps to get it done in no time!

Microsoft Excel can generate trend lines based on data you provide, and in doing do, calculates the equation of the trend line. This equation can be accessed using Excel's built-in Visual Basic tools.