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 ...

How to Change the Color Coding on a Microsoft Excel Graph Legend. Color can make it easier for people to identify important information, such as legends on an Excel graph. Professional designers ...

To change the background of your graph, click in the space between the plot area and the edge of your graph. Then, click the Drawing toolbar’s Fill Color tool and select a color from the palette.

Click the Chart Styles button (the icon is a paintbrush) to change the style or color of your chart. Styles include hollow columns, different backgrounds, reverse video, gradients, and other options.

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 ...

If you have uneven distribution of data in your Excel chart, here is a better way to change the automatic axis settings.

Graphs in Excel help break down your data into an easily digestible format. Here’s how to make a graph in Microsoft Excel.