From the course: Excel PivotTables: Mastering PivotTables and PivotCharts

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Chart layouts and styles

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From the course: Excel PivotTables: Mastering PivotTables and PivotCharts

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Chart layouts and styles

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- [Instructor] Now that we've practiced building some different types of PivotCharts, let's take a minute to talk about some of the design options available to us, specifically, chart layouts and styles. So we can select one of our charts, in this case, our column chart up at the top, and drill into our PivotChart tools, Design options. Now, if you're relatively new to working with charts in Excel, you may want to start by exploring some of the standard layouts and styles that Excel offers. So for example, you can preview different quick layouts, which provide different preset combinations of basic chart elements like labels, legends, gridlines, axis titles, etc. You also have different types of color palettes available to you here. And finally, a selection of more comprehensive styles, which allow you to preview some additional formatting styling options, like fills, shadows, 3D effects. You can drill down to see more, but some crazy stuff in here as well. Now, if you do know your…

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