Excel offers many different tools for formatting your charts, but the key to success is choosing which ones to use. In this guide, I'll share some of my favorite chart-formatting hints, hopefully ...

In this guide, I'll walk you through the different ways to format your chart, with Excel's main chart-formatting actions written in bold so you can find them more easily.

How do you flip a chart left to right in Excel? Right-click any of the axis on the chart and select Format axis on the menu. A Format Axis pane will open. Under the Axis Options, in the Axis ...

How Excel Charts Work A chart has an x-axis range and a y-axis range to show the correlation between two different data sets. The x-axis is the horizontal category line.

To do this, right-click the chart’s Y-axis and choose Format Axis > Number tab. Click on Custom – as you can see, you can create custom formats for chart axes too. In the Type box, type the following ...

How to Format a Color Chart in Excel. Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to ...

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings.

ADJUST THE AXIS SCALE ON AN EXCEL CHART Excel usually does a good job second-guessing me when it chooses the scale for an axis on a chart. But sometimes, to better focus some data, I need to adjust ...

Software engineer Chandoo shares some Excel conditional formatting tricks that make for good-looking and useful spreadsheets, like a Gantt chart.

Remove chart title, grid lines, vertical axis numbers, and chart border for a polished look. Enhance timeline by adjusting line color, thickness, and optionally formatting the x-axis as a right arrow.

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...