How to Format a Color Chart in Excel. Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to ...

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.

Microsoft Excel X may be a champ with numbers, but when it comes to displaying numerical information graphically, Excel's standard chart formats don't pack a lot of punch. But this doesn ...

Fortunately, Excel’s Drawing toolbar makes it easy to customize the backgrounds and colors in your charts to make them stand out. Here’s the scoop.

Effects make your chart looks colorful or unique. In this tutorial, we explain how to create a Chart with Crayon effect in an Excel spreadsheet.

You may have used Excel for years without delving into Styles (or stylesheets). We’re going to cover Cell Styles, and Smart Art, Drawing, Graphics, Picture, and Chart Tools.