Join Dennis Taylor for an in-depth discussion in this video Choosing a chart layout from the Chart Quick Layouts group, part of Excel for Mac 2011: Charts in Depth.
- On this worksheet called YearData,…the chart to the right of the data,…the one with the blue border,…has a title on top,…a title at the bottom,…no title down the left hand side to describe those numbers.…Got a legend off to the right.…But these are chart elements that…most of the time are valuable and we want to see them.…If you haven't worked with charts a lot,…and you click a chart,…you could have gone to the Chart Layout tab,…and go down the path of creating those elements,…by using some of these various features.…But this can be time consuming.…
If you click on the Charts tab,…you'll recognize there is a gray area over here of choices.…These are really valuable, and yet,…as we look at them, they're kinda gray,…and we click a dropper here to see more choices.…Slide over these, you'll see names like…Layout 3, Layout 2, so the naming is kinda strange.…They're tiny, they're hard to read,…but they're extremely valuable.…What I'm going to do is click outside of this chart,…and scroll below the data here.…There's another chart down here, it's a stacked bar chart,…
Author
Dennis Taylor
Released
7/7/2015- Creating charts with one click
- Selecting the right chart types
- Changing chart type or source data
- Choosing a chart layout and style
- Saving charts as templates
- Editing titles, legends, and labels
- Adding a data table
- Analyzing data with trendlines
- Formatting the chart
- Customizing different chart types
- Creating Gantt and frequency charts
- Creating in-cell charts
- Moving charts
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome54s
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1. Creating Basic Charts Quickly
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2. Understanding Excel Chart Concepts
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Identifying chart elements2m 56s
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3. Creating and Adjusting Chart Appearances with Charts Tab Choices
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Changing a chart's type2m 52s
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4. Using Chart Layout Tab Options
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Linking titles to content1m 59s
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Adding a data table2m 58s
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Modifying axes11m 59s
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Working with gridlines5m 8s
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Adding error bars4m 55s
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5. Using Format Tab Options and Other Visual Features
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Adding shapes and arrows7m 55s
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6. Customizing Specific Chart Types
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Customizing line charts6m 18s
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Customizing pie charts9m 20s
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7. Changing a Chart's Data Source
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8. Specialized Excel Charts
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Creating combination charts4m 58s
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Creating Gantt charts7m 2s
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9. Printing and Sharing Charts
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Printing charts4m 44s
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10. In-Cell Chart Alternatives
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11. Chart Manipulation Tools
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Conclusion
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Next steps37s
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Video: Choosing a chart layout from the Chart Quick Layouts group