From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
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Selecting a chart style
From the course: Excel: Introduction to Charts and Graphs
Selecting a chart style
- [Instructor] When you create a chart or if you click on a chart, you immediately see a change in the ribbon menu system. Chart design in the format tabs appear anytime a chart is selected. And on that chart design tab, which is automatically visible when you first create a chart, you can't but ignore the chart styles options that we see here. And don't ignore that button in the lower right corner. At the moment, we're viewing a clustered column chart, one of the most common chart types in Excel, and we've got 14 different choices here. As we slide over these, and I'm not clicking, just slide over these, we see quite a few changes here. Again, if you're an indecisive person, you might be in trouble. Lots of choices. And it also alerts you to features and aspects of charting that you might not have thought about. For example, a black background. I don't think that looks so good here. This one tends to look a little fuzzy. Your eyes have not done a number on you here that really is…
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