Charts in Excel

In this lesson you can learn basic information about chart in Excel. You can insert charts in Excel. Chart are very useful way to visualize data. You can use them in reports, presentations and to show something for your supervisor. To insert chart in Excel first select data which you want visualize. Next go to ribbon. Click Insert choose type of chart in Charts section.

 

Excel chart insertThere is important thing to choose right type of chart.

  • Column chart – the most popular type of chart. The bigger value the higher column.

Column Chart Example

  • Line – use this chart to show, how data change with the time. Use it to show 2 – 7 series of data. More looks not good.

Example Line Chart

  • Pie – use it when you show data which are part of some whole. As an example surface, parts of sales.

Excel Pie Chart Example

  • Bar – good choice to show more than one category of data or one category with subcategories.

Bar Chart example

  • Area – similar to line chart

Area Chart Example

  • Scatter – to show change value of data when you now values as a points.

Scatter Chart Tutorial

  • Stock – only for investors

Stock Chart Excel

  • Surface – when you show two sets of data

surface chart example

  • Doughnut – similar to pie chart but can include few data series

Doughnut Chart Example

  • Bubble – it’s a kind of surface chart. Use it when you show three series of data. Bubble chart is often used for financial data to show difference between values.

ready bubble chart

  • Radar – a good way to display one or more variables for the two-dimensional diagram, wherein each arm presents another variable. The line connects all the data points from a spreadsheet along each arm.

radar chart example

That are basic charts which you can insert in Excel. There are much more types of charts. On this website you can find many lessons about charts in Excel. Not only basics.

Template

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Further reading: 
Scatter Chart
Doghnout Chart

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