There are charts in ms excel

In Microsoft Excel, a chart is often called a graph. It is a visual representation of data from a worksheet that can bring more understanding to the data than just looking at the numbers.

A chart is a powerful tool that allows you to visually display data in a variety of different chart formats such as Bar, Column, Pie, Line, Area, Doughnut, Scatter, Surface, or Radar charts. With Excel, it is easy to create a chart.

Here are some of the types of charts that you can create in Excel.

After you input your data and select the cell range, you’re ready to choose the chart type. In this example, we’ll create a clustered column chart from the data we used in the previous section.

Step 1: Select Chart Type

Once your data is highlighted in the Workbook, click the Insert tab on the top banner. About halfway across the toolbar is a section with several chart options. Excel provides Recommended Charts based on popularity, but you can click any of the dropdown menus to select a different template.

Step 2: Create Your Chart

1. From the Insert tab, click the column chart icon and select Clustered Column.

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1. Excel will automatically create a clustered chart column from your selected data. The chart will appear in the center of your workbook.
2. To name your chart, double click the Chart Title text in the chart and type a title. We’ll call this chart “Product Profit 2013 — 2017.”

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We’ll use this chart for the rest of the walkthrough. You can download this same chart to follow along.

Download Sample Column Chart Template

There are two tabs on the toolbar that you will use to make adjustments to your chart: Chart Design and Format. Excel automatically applies design, layout, and format presets to charts and graphs, but you can add customization by exploring the tabs. Next, we’ll walk you through all the available adjustments in Chart Design.

Step 3: Add Chart Elements

Adding chart elements to your chart or graph will enhance it by clarifying data or providing additional context. You can select a chart element by clicking on the Add Chart Element dropdown menu in the top left-hand corner (beneath the Home tab).

To Display or Hide Axes:

1. Select Axes. Excel will automatically pull the column and row headers from your selected cell range to display both horizontal and vertical axes on your chart (Under Axes, there is a check mark next to Primary Horizontal and Primary Vertical.)

   

2. Uncheck these options to remove the display axis on your chart. In this example, clicking Primary Horizontal will remove the year labels on the horizontal axis of your chart.

   

3. Click More Axis Options… from the Axes dropdown menu to open a window with additional formatting and text options such as adding tick marks, labels, or numbers, or to change text color and size.

   

    

To Add Axis Titles:

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Axis Titles from the dropdown menu. Excel will not automatically add axis titles to your chart; therefore, both Primary Horizontal and Primary Vertical will be unchecked.

   

2. To create axis titles, click Primary Horizontal or Primary Vertical and a text box will appear on the chart. We clicked both in this example. Type your axis titles. In this example, the we added the titles “Year” (horizontal) and “Profit” (vertical).

   

To Remove or Move Chart Title:

• Click Add Chart Element and click Chart Title. You will see four options: None, Above Chart, Centered Overlay, and More Title Options.

  

• Click None to remove chart title.
• Click Above Chart to place the title above the chart. If you create a chart title, Excel will automatically place it above the chart.
• Click Centered Overlay to place the title within the gridlines of the chart. Be careful with this option: you don’t want the title to cover any of your data or clutter your graph (as in the example below).

To Add Data Labels:

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Data Labels. There are six options for data labels: None (default), Center, Inside End, Inside Base, Outside End, and More Data Label Title Options.

   

2. The four placement options will add specific labels to each data point measured in your chart. Click the option you want. This customization can be helpful if you have a small amount of precise data, or if you have a lot of extra space in your chart. For a clustered column chart, however, adding data labels will likely look too cluttered. For example, here is what selecting Center data labels looks like:

   

To Add a Data Table: 

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Data Table. There are three pre-formatted options along with an extended menu that can be found by clicking More Data Table Options:

   

Note: If you choose to include a data table, you’ll probably want to make your chart larger to accommodate the table. Simply click the corner of your chart and use drag-and-drop to resize your chart.

To Add Error Bars:

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Error Bars. In addition to More Error Bars Options, there are four options: None (default), Standard Error, 5% (Percentage), and Standard Deviation. Adding error bars provide a visual representation of the potential error in the shown data, based on different standard equations for isolating error.

   

2. For example, when we click Standard Error from the options we get a chart that looks like the image below.

   

 To Add Gridlines:

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Gridlines. In addition to More Grid Line Options, there are four options: Primary Major Horizontal, Primary Major Vertical, Primary Minor Horizontal, and Primary Minor Vertical. For a column chart, Excel will add Primary Major Horizontal gridlines by default.

   

2. You can select as many different gridlines as you want by clicking the options. For example, here is what our chart looks like when we click all four gridline options.

To Add a Legend:  

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Legend. In addition to More Legend Options, there are five options for legend placement: None, Right, Top, Left, and Bottom.

   

2. Legend placement will depend on the style and format of your chart. Check the option that looks best on your chart. Here is our chart when we click the Right legend placement.

   

To Add Lines: Lines are not available for clustered column charts. However, in other chart types where you only compare two variables, you can add lines (e.g. target, average, reference, etc.) to your chart by checking the appropriate option.

To Add a Trendline:

1. Click Add Chart Element and click Trendline. In addition to More Trendline Options, there are five options: None (default), Linear, Exponential, Linear Forecast, and Moving Average. Check the appropriate option for your data set. In this example, we will click Linear.

   

2. Because we are comparing five different products over time, Excel creates a trendline for each individual product. To create a linear trendline for Product A, click Product A and click the blue OK button.

   

3. The chart will now display a dotted trendline to represent the linear progression of Product A. Note that Excel has also added Linear (Product A) to the legend.

   

4. To display the trendline equation on your chart, double click the trendline. A Format Trendline window will open on the right side of your screen. Click the box next to Display equation on chart at the bottom of the window. The equation now appears on your chart.

   

Note: You can create separate trendlines for as many variables in your chart as you like. For example, here is our chart with trendlines for Product A and Product C. 

To Add Up/Down Bars: Up/Down Bars are not available for a column chart, but you can use them in a line chart to show increases and decreases among data points.

Step 4: Adjust Quick Layout

1. The second dropdown menu on the toolbar is Quick Layout, which allows you to quickly change the layout of elements in your chart (titles, legend, clusters etc.).

   

2. There are 11 quick layout options. Hover your cursor over the different options for an explanation and click the one you want to apply.

   

Step 5: Change Colors

The next dropdown menu in the toolbar is Change Colors. Click the icon and choose the color palette that fits your needs (these needs could be aesthetic, or to match your brand’s colors and style).

Step 6: Change Style

For cluster column charts, there are 14 chart styles available. Excel will default to Style 1, but you can select any of the other styles to change the chart appearance. Use the arrow on the right of the image bar to view other options.

Step 7: Switch Row/Column

1. Click the Switch Row/Column on the toolbar to flip the axes. Note: It is not always intuitive to flip axes for every chart, for example, if you have more than two variables.

   

In this example, switching the row and column swaps the product and year (profit remains on the y-axis). The chart is now clustered by product (not year), and the color-coded legend refers to the year (not product). To avoid confusion here, click on the legend and change the titles from Series to Years.

Step 8: Select Data

1. Click the Select Data icon on the toolbar to change the range of your data.
2. A window will open. Type the cell range you want and click the OK button. The chart will automatically update to reflect this new data range.

   

Step 9: Change Chart Type

1. Click the Change Chart Type dropdown menu.

   

2. Here you can change your chart type to any of the nine chart categories that Excel offers. Of course, make sure that your data is appropriate for the chart type you choose.

   

3. You can also save your chart as a template by clicking Save as Template…

4. A dialogue box will open where you can name your template. Excel will automatically create a folder for your templates for easy organization. Click the blue Save button.

   

Step 10: Move Chart

1. Click the Move Chart icon on the far right of the toolbar.
2. A dialogue box appears where you can choose where to place your chart. You can either create a new sheet with this chart (New sheet) or place this chart as an object in another sheet (Object in). Click the blue OK button.

   

Step 11: Change Formatting

1. The Format tab allows you to change formatting of all elements and text in the chart, including colors, size, shape, fill, and alignment, and the ability to insert shapes. Click the Format tab and use the shortcuts available to create a chart that reflects your organization’s brand (colors, images, etc.).

   

2. Click the dropdown menu on the top left side of the toolbar and click the chart element you are editing.

   

Step 12: Delete a Chart 

To delete a chart, simply click on it and click the Delete key on your keyboard.

In Excel 2016, charts and diagrams can show trends, averages, high and low points, and more. Not only do they make your worksheets more visually appealing, they also serve a definite function. They make it easier for your intended audience to sort out and understand the information you are presenting to them. This is especially true when dealing with data.

There are many different kinds of charts available in MS Excel—pie charts, bar charts, line charts, even organizational charts. What’s more, MS Excel provides you with several tools to help you create them. You’ll find those tools under the Insert tab in the Chart group:

Throughout this lesson, we’re going to discuss how to create charts for your worksheets and workbooks. Even if you don’t have any idea how to work with charts right now, sit back and relax. By the end of this lesson, it will all be easy.

Chart Recommendations

In prior versions of Excel, you had the Chart Wizard to help you create charts. That was a great tool and a great help, but Excel 2016 offers you something even better: Recommended Charts tool. This is under the Insert tab on the Ribbon in the Charts group (as pictured above).

To create a chart this way, first select the data that you want to put into a chart. Include labels and data.

When you click on the Recommended Charts button, a dialogue box opens like the one pictured below.

Based on your data, Excel recommends a chart for you to use. 

On the left side of this dialogue box is all the chart recommendations.

On the right is a preview of what the chart will look like with your data.

Choose the chart that you want to use, then click OK.

The chart is embedded in your worksheet for you:

You’ll also notice that the Chart Tools Format tab opens in the Ribbon:

The tools shown above will help you customize your charts. We’ll discuss all of these options later in this lesson.

Types of Charts

To the right of the Recommended Charts button on the ribbon, you’ll see this:

You can use these buttons and their dropdown menus to create these types and styles of charts. We’re going to go from left to right, starting at the top left, and cover all the buttons above.

Insert Column or Bar Chart. This is the first button, located in the top left corner. With this, you can preview data as a 2-D or 3-D vertical column chart or as a 2-D or 3-D horizontal bar chart.

Insert Hierarchy Chart. Use this chart to compare a part to a whole or to show the hierarchy of several columns or categories.

Insert Waterfall or Stock Chart. The waterfall chart is used to show how a starting value is affected by a series of positive and negative values, while the stock chart is used to show the trend of a stock’s value over time.

Insert Line or Area Chart. This lets you preview data as a 2-D or 3-D line or area chart.

Insert Statistic Chart. Use these charts to show a statistical analysis of your data. Chart types include Histogram, Pareto, and Box and Whisker charts.

Insert Combo Chart. These charts are best when you have mixed data or want to emphasize different types of information. You can preview your data as a 2-D combo clustered column and line chart – or clustered column and stacked area chart.

Insert Pie or Doughnut Chart.   You can preview data as a 2-D or 3-D pie or 2-D doughnut chart.

Insert Scatter (X,Y) or Bubble Chart. Preview data as a 2-D scatter or bubble chart.

Insert Surface, or Radar Chart. With this, you can preview data as a 2-D stock chart that uses typical stock symbols, a 2-D or 3-D surface chart, or even a 3-D radar chart.

New Chart Types in Excel 2016

Word 2016 brings with it some new chart types to help you better illustrate data that you include in your worksheets.

These chart types include:

• Treemap. A treemap chart displays hierarchically structured data. The data appears as rectangles that contain other rectangles. A set of rectangles on the save level in the hierarchy equal a column or an expression. Individual rectangles on the same level equal a category in a column. For example, a rectangle that represents a state may contain other rectangles that represent cities in that state.
• Waterfall. As explained by Microsoft, «Waterfall charts are ideal for showing how you have arrived at a net value, by breaking down the cumulative effect of positive and negative contributions. This is very helpful for many different scenarios, from visualizing financial statements to navigating data about population, births and deaths».
• Pareto. A Pareto chart contains both bars and a line graph. Individual values are represented by bars. The cumulative total is represented by the line.
• Histogram. A histogram chart displays numerical data in bins. The bins are represented by bars. It’s used for continuous data.
• Box and Whisker. A Box and Whisker chart, as explained by Microsoft, is «A box and whisker chart shows distribution of data into quartiles, highlighting the mean and outliers. The boxes may have lines extending vertically called ‘whiskers’. These lines indicate variability outside the upper and lower quartiles, and any point outside those lines or whiskers is considered an outlier.»
• Sunburst. A sunburst chart is a pie chart that shows relational datasets. The inner rings of the chart relate to the outer rings.   It’s a hierarchal chart with the inner rings at the top of the hierarchy.

Creating Charts Using the Ribbon

By using the chart options we discussed in the last section, we can quickly and easily create a chart, then embed it into our worksheet. 

Let’s insert a bar chart into our worksheet below.

Start out by selecting the data you want to use in the chart.

Now click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button on the Ribbon.

Choose the bar chart you want to use, or click More Column Charts. 

If you click More Column Charts, this is what you’ll see:

On the right side of the window, you will see a list of different chart types. Click Bar.

At the top, you’ll see bar charts illustrated in gray. These are different styles of bar charts. You can click on any of the styles and see a preview of your data in that style of chart (in color) in the box below.

Select the type of chart you want, then click OK.

Excel embeds the chart in your worksheet for you:

Creating a Chart from Scratch

So far in this lesson, we’ve taught you how to create charts by selecting your data first. However, you don’t have to do it that way (although it’s the easiest).   In other words, you can start to create your chart without selecting data first.

Let’s learn how.

Click the Insert Column or Bar Chart button on the Ribbon again. However, this time, don’t select any data before you do it.

Select the type of bar chart that you want to use.

You’ll see a blank area on your worksheet where your chart will be embedded, and you’ll also notice the Chart Design and the Chart Format tabs open on the Ribbon.

Click the Select Data button under the Design tab.

The Select Data Source dialog window will open.

The data range refers to the number of cells you’d like to use. For instance, «=Sheet1!$A$1:$G$8» refers to cells A1 through G8 on worksheet one.   

It’s actually much easier to select the data range by dragging your mouse over it. To do that, click the Data Range button  next to the text box.

You’ll see another box that looks like this:

This window is simply asking you to define the data range, and you can do it easily by clicking on a cell, holding the mouse button, and dragging it over all of the cells you’d like to add. MS Excel automatically enters the selected cell coordinates into the data range window. When you are finished, you can either click the button on the right  or push Enter.

When you hit Enter, the chart appears in your worksheet:

Now you can use the Select Data Source dialogue box to add legend entries – or edit and remove them.  

You can also edit your axis labels. 

Note that your axis labels were your row labels. These appear as colors representing each day of the week.

Your legend entries were your column labels. These appear on the left, vertically.

Your data appears as the bars.

If you want, you can switch rows and columns so that the days of the week appear on the left and your axis labels become legend entries.

Uncheck any entries that you don’t want to appear in the chart.

Click OK when you’re finished.

Creating Charts Using the Quick Analysis Tool

To use the Quick Analysis tool for creating charts, select that data that you want to include in chart. Click on the Quick Analysis tool button at the bottom right of the selected data (circled in red below):

Click Charts (circled in red):

Select the type of chart you want.

We’re going to choose a clustered chart.

The chart is embedded in your spreadsheet:

Modifying and Moving a Chart

There are a number of ways to modify a chart after it’s made. 

You can right click on the plot area as we’ve done below.

From the menu, you can delete the chart, reset, change the chart type, save the chart as a template, or select data to include in the chart. You can also format the chart area.

You can also click on the chart’s title to change or format it.

You can also right click on the legend or any other aspect of the chart to move it around and make changes. We’re going to talk about modifying chart elements in another section.

If you want to move a chart, simply click and drag any of its bounding box borders:

You can use the handles on the bounding box (the little circles indicated by the arrows above) to resize your chart. Drag it in to make it smaller, out to make it larger.

Chart Sheets

If you want a chart to appear on its own sheet in the workbook, simply click somewhere in the plot of the chart or select the data in your spreadsheet. Hit F11 on your keyboard.

The chart is moved to its own sheet as a clustered column chart.

Note that the sheet is named Chart1 by default. You can change that name the same way that you change any other worksheet name.

The Design Tab and Customizing Charts

The tools on the Design tab help you to customize your charts so that you achieve the look, feel, and purpose that you want.

The Design tab is pictured below. You can mouse over any tools to learn their names. 

We’re going to cover all the aspects of the Design tab, starting with groups and breaking them down into tools.

Chart Layouts is the first group on the left. It contains the Add Chart Element tool and the Quick Layout tool. The Add Chart Element tool allows you to modify some elements, such as titles, data labels, legend, etc. The Quick Layout tool allows you to select a new layout for your chart.

Chart Styles gives you different styles of charts to choose from. You can also change the colors used in your charts using the Change Colors tool.

The Data group allows you to reverse rows and columns in your chart. We also talked about doing this earlier in the lesson. It also gives you the Select Data tool, which we used in a prior section.

The Type group contains Change Chart Type. You can change the type of chart by using this tool.

The Location group has the Move Chart tool that allows you to move the chart to a different place within your worksheet – or to another worksheet.

Customizing Chart Elements with the Chart Elements Button

The Chart Elements button appears as a plus sign whenever your chart is selected.

In the snapshot below, you can see it to the right of our chart.

When you click it, you’ll see a list of chart elements that you can add to your chart.

The elements that are in your chart have checkmarks beside them. You can uncheck them to remove the elements. To add an element, simply put a checkmark in the box beside it. 

If you want to remove or add just a part of an element, or specify its layout as with Data Labels, you’ll use the Chart Elements continuation menu.

Here’s how to do this.

Start by putting a checkmark beside Data Labels (as an example).

You’ll see an arrow appear to the right of the word Data Labels (indicated in red below.)

Click the arrow and you’ll see the continuation menu.

Select a layout option.

We’re going to choose Data Callout.

Formatting a Chart

To format a chart, you can double click in the plot area or the chart area. If you double click in the chart area, it opens the Format Chart Area pane on the right side of your window. If you double click in the plot area, it opens the Format Plot area on the right side of your screen, as shown below.

At the top of the pane, are the options.

Fill & Line looks like a bucket pouring green paint and allows you to format the fill and lines of your chart.

The Effects button is the one on the right, which allows you to add special effects to your chart to customize the look.

Take time to play around with the different formatting options for your charts. It’s a lot of fun to do, and you will discover interesting combinations of effects that will produce charts you’ll love.

Organizational Charts or Diagrams with SmartArt

While an ordinary chart simply represents data, diagrams and organizational charts explain the causal relationship between elements. The following organizational chart, for instance, explains the relationship between managers and subordinates.

The simplest way to create an organizational chart is to click the Insert tab, then SmartArt. The SmartArt icon has been scaled down in Excel 2016, so we’ve circled it in red below.

The SmartArt dialogue box appears:

Choose the type of organizational chart or diagram you want on the left. You can choose a style from the middle section called List.

Once you choose your chart or diagram, click OK.

It appears in your spreadsheet:

Click on the areas marked text to add your own.

In the Ribbon, the SmartArt Design and Format tabs appear.

You can use these tools to change the layout, apply a style, change the colors, and other formatting elements.

View Animation in Charts

One of the debated new features in Excel 2016 is the animation added to charts. 

Here’s how the animation works.

After you create a chart, then change the data for the chart in the spreadsheet, you can watch your chart and see it change too – in full animation.

In other words, if you have a bar chart, and you change the data so that a bar will be shorter, you can watch the bar slowly become shorter right after you change the data.

Sparklines

A sparkline is simply a small chart that’s aligned with a row of your data. It typically shows trend information.

Let’s learn how to add one in the spreadsheet below:

To insert a sparkline, go to the Ribbon, click the Insert tab, then the Sparklines group.

Choose the type of sparkline you want to add.

We’re going to choose Line.

You’ll see this dialogue box.

Select the cells in your spreadsheet that you want to use for your sparkline. Just drag your mouse to select the cells.

Next, enter the absolute reference for the cell where you want the sparkline to appear.

Click OK.

The sparkline now appears in the location you specified.

You can also format your sparkline using the Sparkline Tools Design tab that opens in the Ribbon.

Taxes are better calculated on the basis of information from the tables. And for the presentation of the company’s achievements it is better to use charts and diagrams.

The graphs are well suited for analyzing of relative data. For example, the forecast of sales growth dynamics or the assessment of the overall trend of growth in the capacity of the enterprise.



How to build a chart in Excel?

The fastest way to build a chart in Excel – is to create graphs by template:

1. The range of the cells A1:C4. You need to fill it with values as shown in the figure:



2. Select the range A1:C4 and choose the tool on the «INSERT» tab – «Insert Column Chart» – «Clustered Column».



3. Click on the graph to activate it and call the additional menu «CHART TOOLS». There are also three tool tabs available: «DESIGN» and «FORMAT».



4. To change the axes in the graph, select to the «Constructor» tab, and on it the «Switch Row/Column» tool. Thus, you change the values in the graph: rows per columns.



5. Click on any cell to deselect the chart and thus to deactivate its setting mode.

Now you can work in the normal mode.



How to build a chart on the table in Excel?

Now we are constructing the diagram according to the data of the Excel table, which must be signed with the title:

1. Select the A1:B4 range in the source table.
2. Select «INSERT» – «Insert Pie or Doughnut». From the group of different chart types, select the «Doughnut».



3. Sign the title of your chart. To do this, make a double-click on the title with the left mouse button and enter the text as shown in the picture:

After you sign a new title, click on any cell to deactivate the chart settings and go to normal mode.

Diagrams and charts in Excel

How not to create a table, its data will be less readable than the graphical representation in diagrams and charts. For example, pay attention to the picture:

According to the table, you do not immediately to notice in what month the company’s revenues were the highest, and in what the smallest ones. You can, of course, use the «Sorting» tool, but then the general idea of the seasonality of the firm’s activity is lost.

Pay attention to the chart, which is built according to the same table. Here you do not have to blame your eyes to notice the months with the smallest and the largest indicator of the company’s profitability. And the general presentation of the schedule allows you to track the seasonality of activity of sales, which bring more or less profit in certain periods of the year. The data recorded in the table, is perfectly suitable for detailed calculations and calculations. But the charts and the diagrams provide us with its indisputable advantages:

• improve to the readability of data;
• simplify the general orientation of large amounts of the data;
• allow you to create high-quality presentations of reports.

When it comes to analysis and decision-making from the data in any business or company, numerical data in any form would make it difficult. Excel solves this problem with the use of visual representation for the numerical values using Charts in Excel. Most people think that excel is all about crunching rows and columns in the form of data but No! There is so much more to do with the data when it comes to its visual representation.

What are Charts in Excel

A chart is a visual representation of data in the form of bars, lines, pies and so much more. Displaying the data in an organized way helps the team to come up with business decisions faster. Charts help us to summarize a relationship between the numerical values, business patterns, trends that might go unnoticed if there were just numerical values used to represent them.

Amazing Points About Charts in Excel

One should know the following points in Excel to get a deeper knowledge about charts.

• Charts are dynamic in nature. They represent the data series of numbers in visual form. Any change in the data series will be reflected in the chart.
• When we create a chart, it can reside in the two locations in a workbook. It can either be an embedded chart or on a chart sheet.
  • The embedded chart floats as a layer on the worksheet. It inserts near the data so you can see both data and chart at the same time.
  • A chart sheet is a new sheet created only to represent the chart. It can be created by selecting the data and then pressing the F11 function key and getting the default chart type.
• A chart act as an object in Excel like other objects including shapes or text box. We can add a chart title, legends. gridlines to the chart.
• We can format a chart, resize it, add effects, customize it and do a lot more things to be done with a chart.
• When we click on a chart and select it, there are two more tabs on the ribbon. Design tab and Format Tab.

Starting with Charts

Let us start working with charts.

Components of Charts in Excel

A chart is so much more than a representation. We can do a lot of things with a chart but for that, we must understand its components first.

A chart has many useful elements yet they are not mandatory to be mentioned. We can make an empty chart that has no chart elements. Excel allows it but it has no use. Below are the points explaining chart elements.

• Vertical/Value Axis – It has the data series representing values. There are two vertical axes in the above graph i.e. one for income and the other for profit percentage. This is so because if we tried plotting the profit and income on one axis, the profit line might not even be visible.
• Horizontal/Category Axis – This represents the category for each data entry. In above example, it is month.
• Legends – A chart with two data series ( profit % and income ) is appropriate but for that excel assigns a different color scheme to both of them that are called legends.
• Chart title – The name can be used to imply to the worker that what type of information the chart displays

Inserting a Chart in Excel

In this section of the blog, we will be knowing the steps to insert a chart in excel. Here we go

• Let us say we have a set of data representing the monthly website visits of a company.

• Select this data and Go to Insert Tab. Go to Charts group and then select the Clustered Column Chart.

• As a result, Excel would now create a chart in the same worksheet representing the website visitors.

Changing Chart Type

As we have now created a clustered column chart for the website visits. We can now easily change the chart types. Although clustered column chart has perfectly represented the information nothing goes in checking some other chart types.

Select the chart and a new Chart Design tab will appear on the ribbon.

From there, go to Type group and click on the change chart type button.

The Change Chart Type dialog box appears.

From here you can change the chart type in Excel. You can try on The Line Chart, Pie Chart, or any other of them.

Formatting Charts in Excel

Let us take a data source that has the actual sales and target sales for each month of a company. Below is the data.

We will insert a combo chart this time. In a combo chart, we use different chart types for different data series. In the above data, there are two data series named sales and target. Steps to do this are

• Select the data. Go to insert tab > charts group > combo chart button. Refer to the image below.

• Click on Create Custom Combo Chart Button to open the Insert Chart Dialog Box

• In the Insert Chart Dialog Box, Refer to the instructions in the below figure and click ok once you are done.

Once you click ok, the chart shown in preview inserts on the current worksheet. By default, excel inserts the chart title on the top of the chart. We can change it by double-clicking on it.

We can format our chart to make it look even better to match the theme of the project. Following are the steps:-

• Click on the chart to activate it.
• Two tabs named Chart Design and Format will pop up on the ribbon. Click on Chart Design Tab.
• In the chart styles group, click on the change colors button and choose the desired color for your chart.

We can also change the chart style from the chart style group. There are many chart styles as you can see.

This brings us to the end of the blog. Thank you for reading 😉

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