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Formatting charts

Formatting charts - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Formatting charts

Excel has so many different formatting options when it comes to charts that you could easily waste a lot of time. Let's make this relatively simple. If we want to create a chart from the data in columns A and B, let's simply select the data. Maybe we're interested in a Pie Chart here. We'll go to the Insert tab in the ribbon and choose Pie, perhaps a 3-D Pie. It looks pretty good. We might not like that a whole lot, but immediately, what do we see in the Chart Tools ribbon, that's active when a chart is selected? We have got a Design tab, Chart Styles, as we slide over these choices, we see some variations. By the way, when you see these, don't overlook the drop arrow here because there might be more choices than you initially see--and exploring these--that one looks pretty good. Click it. So that's the first thing you might want to consider doing when you create a chart. You also have the same capabilities here exposed by way of the three buttons that you see to the right of a chart…

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