Thursday, 2 October 2014

Excel - Creating a simple bar chart


Charts are a really effective way to provide a visual representation of data in Excel. Excel provides a number of different Chart types but if you’re in a rush and want to create one quickly you can use a keyboard shortcut to create a simple bar chart.

Select the data that you want to create the chart from.
 

Press F11 on your keyboard and hey presto a really simple bar chart is created on a new worksheet.



The chart can be customised and you can even change the chart type if you want to by using the chart tool bar and icons.

The screenshots above relate to Excel 2013 but the method for creating the chart applies to all versions of Excel.


 

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