From the course: Excel: Charts in Depth
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Column and bar charts
- [Male] We're looking at a worksheet called "Column Bar" in our chapter five exercise file. And what we're seeing here are variations on two of the most common chart types in Excel. A column chart, which usually is the default chart in Excel unless you've altered it. We've got three examples across the top, the red, blue, and green bordered charts, are column charts. And below that we see three variations similarly structured called bar charts. Bar charts are simply column charts rotated ninety degrees. The two charts on the left, the red and the gold bordered sheets, are clustered. Clustered column and clustered bar just below it. Very common, we see these all the time in newspapers, magazines, television, and so on. To the right of that, what we call a stacked column chart, and below that a stacked bar chart. The advantage to a stacked column chart is it's simpler, slightly cleaner looking, depending upon the amount of…
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