With just a little work, I turned an Excel sheet into a modifiable piece of graph paper. The trick is to square up the cells. The gauge is less important. Like graph paper, a cell can equal ...

Set up graph paper. All you want is a few sheets of grid/graph paper in a hurry. No problem. Open a blank Excel spreadsheet. For a standard 8.5×11-inch piece of paper, highlight cells A1 through ...

Open Excel's Format Legend pane by right-clicking the legend in a chart and selecting "Format Legend." Click the window's Fill and Line icon, shaped like a paint bucket, followed by "Fill." ...