How to Format Bar Charts in Excel

Sep 17

Sep 17 How to Format Bar Charts in Excel

The actual width is not set in stone. Our goal is to enable our audiences to compare the lengths of the bars (instead of the area between them), so general guidance is to thicken the bars to minimize the surrounding white space.

Read the step by step guide at How to format bar charts in Excel — storytelling with data

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