Understand the Design and Format tabs in the ribbon menu

- No matter how long you've worked with Excel,…you've probably established some kind of familiarity…with the ribbon menu system.…When we work with charts, however,…we do need additional tools…that we will not find in these tabs.…Anytime we click on a chart, what happens?…We have a new ribbon, Chart Tools,…with two contextual tabs, Design and Format.…Earlier versions of Excel had three tabs up here,…and it was quite complicated,…because there appeared to be so many choices.…Actually we have just as many choices now,…but this display is a little bit simpler.…

The two tabs, Design and Format,…appear whenever we click a chart.…The Design tab is the most important,…that's where we make major changes,…for example, changing the Chart Type off to the right.…Sometimes we'll Switch the Row/Column emphasis,…sometimes we'll change the look of the chart,…by way of Chart Styles.…At other times we might change…some of the elements in a chart,…by adding a Chart Element or possibly…changing the layout by way of Quick Layout.…The Design tab has a lot to do…