You can make a bar graph on Google Sheets to make the data in your spreadsheet more digestible, useful, and visually appealing.

In this post we show you how to create a Bar Graph or Column Chart in Excel. Bar graphs could be both 2-D or 3-D depending on the editor you use.

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

About one in five graph readers categorically misinterpreted bar graphs that depicted averages. "These readers sketched all, or nearly all, of the data points below the average," said Wilmer.

The new Diamond Graph method corrects the inaccuracies and limitations of the 3-D bar graph by representing all variables equally on a 2-D graph.