How to Customize the Column Chart in Excel
For customizing the Column Chart, click on the chart, and three pop-ups will appear, which can help you customize the tile chart title, axis title, colors used, styles, filters used, etc.
- Chart Title: Add a Descriptive title to the Chart to provide context for the data.
- Axis Labels: Label the X-axis and Y-axis so that it should be clearly understood the data categories and values.
- Data Labels: Display data labels on the Column Chart to give exact values.
- Legend: To identify each data series in the Chart customize the legend.
- Colors and Styles: You can change the colors and styles of the Columns to make the Chart visually engaging.
Let’s customize our chart as per requirement and have a better look.
Step 1: From here I have selected the axis title for more clarification, you can further go for any of the options available.
Step 2: Now, let’s change the style of the chart, for this, click on the brush just below the previous plus option.
I have selected my preferred style, you can choose any of them or can create a custom style from the color option.
Step 3: Now, the final thing is dealing with the filters, i.e., which data you want to show and which to hide. For this, go to the filter option just below the style menu.
Step 4: In this pop up If you will uncheck any then the particular data about them will be removed from the chart. We don’t require excluding any, so keep it as it is. Our final look at the chart is as below.
Here I have customized the titles and the style for a better look and clarification.
How to Make a Column Chart in Excel
Column Charts provide advanced options that are not available with some other chart types such as trendlines and adding a secondary axis. This tutorial will walk you through the step-by-step process of creating a column chart in Microsoft Excel.
Column charts are used for making comparisons over time or illustrating changes. In the column chart, the horizontal bar shows categories, while the vertical bar shows values.
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