We now demonstrate how to create a bar chart via the following example.Įxample 1 – Create a bar chart for the data in Figure 1. At any time you can click on the chart to get access to these ribbons. the first type is a 2-dimensional side-by-side bar chart while the second choice is a 2-dimensional stacked bar chart. As usual, you can place the mouse pointer over the picture of any chart type to get a brief description of that chart type. To create a bar chart execute the following steps:
These are used to refine the chart created. Once a chart is created three new ribbons are accessible, namely Design, Layout and Format. Other types of charts are created in a similar manner. Elsewhere on the website we describe how to create scatter charts. We will describe how to create bar and line charts here. You can access Excel’s charting capabilities by selecting Insert > Charts. Excel provides fairly extensive capabilities for creating graphs, what Excel calls charts.
