Customizing column and bar charts

- Probably the most common chart type…that most people use in Excel, is a column chart,…also popularly used is a bar chart,…which is nothing other really, than a column chart…rotated 90 degrees.…So much of what I'm about to tell you…about column charts, also applies to bar charts,…with one exception.…In this worksheet called ColumnBar,…we're showing data based on the information…highlighted right here, off to the left,…from cell A 4 over to G 8.…The most common chart type for many people…probably is the chart type below this,…a clustered column chart.…

To the right, we're seeing a stacked column chart.…Let's recognize some differences here,…and also what happens when we have negatives.…The big advantage of stacked column,…we can tell at a glance what the total is.…If you're looking at the chart below the data there,…and someone says, "Is the May total bigger than February?"…Could you say with confidence that May is bigger?…Some of the columns are taller, are all of them?…Probably be a good a guess.…But on the other hand, the stacked column…