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Learn how to create a chart in Excel and add a trendline. Visualize your data with a column, bar, pie, line, or scatter chart (or graph) in Office.
You can add predefined lines or bars to charts in several apps for Office. By adding lines, including series lines, drop lines, high-low lines, and up-down bars, to specific chart can help you analyze the data that is displayed.
If you're exploring charts in Excel and having a hard time figuring out which one is right for you, then you can try the Recommended Charts command on the Insert tab. Excel will analyze your data and make suggestions for you.
Learn best ways to select a range of data to create a chart, and how that data needs to be arranged for specific charts.
By default, Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical (value) axis, also known as the y axis, when you create a chart. However, you can customize the scale to better meet your needs.
If your chart contains chart titles (ie. the name of the chart) or axis titles (the titles shown on the x, y or z axis of a chart) and data labels (which provide further detail on a particular data point on the chart), you can edit those titles and labels.
Add a data series to a chart in Excel. Show a new data series in your chart (graph) by including the series and its name in the chart source data.
Whether you’ll use a chart that’s recommended for your data, one that you’ll pick from the list of all charts, or one from our selection of chart templates, it might help to know a little more about each type of chart.
Column charts are useful for showing data changes over a period of time or for illustrating comparisons among items. In column charts, categories are typically organized along the horizontal axis and values along the vertical axis.
To format data labels, select your chart, and then in the Chart Design tab, click Add Chart Element > Data Labels > More Data Label Options. Click Label Options and under Label Contains , pick the options you want.
Learn how to add a legend to a chart, retrieve a missing legend, and adjust its settings. Add, edit, or remove a chart legend in Excel.