Make a Graph in Excel

How to Make a Graph in Microsoft Excel - 2019 Guide

Making graphs and charts is the common and basic requirement for working people. Nowadays, most of the office workers use Microsoft Excel to make charts. Since the latest Excel version is Excel 2016, in this tutorial, we shall show you how to make a graph in Excel 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003 in the year of 2017.

What kind of Graph types in Excel File?

When you open an Excel document, there are 3 kinds of graph types mainly, which are:

Line Graphs: Line Graphs do well in displaying tendency over time, such as average number of hours worked in a week and product trends by month. Either 2-dimension or 3-dimension line graph is effective in Microsoft Excel.

Column Graphs: Column Graphs also help the observers to see how the parameters vary as time goes on. However, they are able to be named “graphs” only if a single data parameter is used. Once the diversified parameters are joined in, readers couldn’t gain any discernments about how each single parameter has turned.

Bar Graphs: Bar Graphs are quite analogous to column graphs, but its constant parameter is allocated to the Y axis and variables are in the X axis.

How to Make a Graph in Excel Spreadsheet?

To create a graph in Microsoft Excel document, you will need to do the following steps.

Step 1. First of all, you have to launch Excel and input your data with table into Excel spreadsheet. This is quite simple for you. After that, highlight the data in the table cell that you wish to use for the graph.

Step 2. Choose the “Insert” option in the header of Excel tool bar. Click on the Line Chart button in the Charts group. After that, choose your target chart from drop down menu.

Step 3. Now you can see the graph shown next to your table. Its content is synched with your table data and each of them are appeared with X axis and Y axis

Step 4. At last, you had better give a chart title of your graph. Click on the “Chart Title” and enter the text for the line graph.

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