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The Ultimate Guide to Office 365 Although Excel has a lot of great basic chart formats, they can be too general to be useful for many real-world applications. For a more customized approach, here’s how to save your own charts as templates in Excel. Create a chart in Excel that you’d like to save as a template. Right click the chart in your spreadsheet, and then choose “Save as Template.” Note: Don’t change the default save location for templates, or it can make things more difficult when trying to apply your templates later on. If you ever have a data set in another format, you can create a standard chart. But in the Chart Design tab that appears, you can click on Change Chart Type Templates. This is where your templates saved in the default folder will appear.
Sep 8, 2016 - Excel 2016 Mac: Chart series formatting changes when different data are selected. If it were me, I would save the formatting as a chart theme. If we were using both columns of our table as a data series, we could just click any cell inside the table and choose Insert > Charts > Column (Mac: Charts > Column).
If you select your saved template, your chart will instantly update to reflect your design. If you need to manage your templates, you can easily do that by going back to the Change Chart Type menu Manage Templates. It will open a window to the location where you have stored your templates by default, so if you have saved a template somewhere else, you can easily pull it into this window now.
By One of the more subtle things to master with charts in Excel for Mac 2011 is training yourself to be aware of what is selected at any given moment. The Ribbon can help you with this. When you click anywhere on a chart, the Office 2011 for Mac Ribbon displays three tabs from which to choose:. Charts: This is where you start with your chart. This Ribbon tab has chart types, quick layouts, chart styles, sparklines, and data source controls. Chart Layout: This Ribbon tab is where you fine-tune chart customization. Here you find a selection indicator and chooser, selection formatting options, analysis options, label options, and 3-D rotation options.
Format: More fine-tuning using the selection indicator and chooser, chart element styles, text styles, arrangement, and size tools. Selecting chart elements in Excel 2011 for Mac To select a chart element, you can either click the element or click the Current Selection pop-up menu found within the Chart Layout tab of the Ribbon. All the formatting options adjust automatically to activate only those options that are applicable to whatever is selected.
When you select a chart series within a chart, the corresponding data series and data labels are selected in your data range. Selection indicators display on the chart series elements in the chart. Deleting an Excel chart series A chart series represents the data found within a row or column To delete a chart series, select it and then press the Delete key. The corresponding row or column in the data source is not deleted. Formatting chart elements in Excel 2011 for Mac You have your choice of using the formatting tools on the three Ribbon tabs, or you can display a dialog by clicking the Format Selection button. The formatting options work the same in charts as for other objects.
You have countless formatting options from which to choose. Labeling your Excel for Mac chart The Labels group on the Chart Layout tab of the Ribbon is where you can find the controls for the labels and title in your chart. Each button lets you choose from a pop-up menu of position and formatting options. You can choose whether or not to have a label on your chart at all; you can choose No Chart Title, for example. The final option in each menu displays a dialog with precision control over the chart element being formatted. Formatting chart axes The axes on your chart can be formatted, adjusted for scale, and turned on and off.
To do so, click the Axes button in the Axes group of the Chart Layout tab of the Ribbon. You can set the unit of measurement and switch from scalar (the default) to log scale using the Axes button. The Gridlines button lets you turn horizontal and vertical gridlines on and off independently.
The final option in each button’s drop-down menu displays a dialog with precision control over the axis being formatted.