Click one of those colors, and Excel applies it to the legend instantly. This flexibility gives you the ability to see how different legend colors look in relation to existing chart elements.

Making a floating bar chart in Microsoft Excel is a great way to visually represent distribution between entities. Susan Harkins will show you how.

You can change the default color of chart, graph, treemap, etc. in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the helpof these simple steps.

A bar chart is useful when you want to do a quick side-by-side comparison of categorical data (e.g., countries, colors, types of software, modes of transport, marital statuses).