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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the
year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? Thanks for help. Lynn Bartling |
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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
You can change the entire series at one time:
Select the chart Right-click on one of the Budget bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a blue colour for the Area, click OK Right-click on one of the Actual bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a green colour for the Area, click OK Lynn Bartling wrote: I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
This doesn't work. When I right click on one of the Budget bars it selects
them all; same for the Actual bars. Lynn "Debra Dalgleish" wrote in message ... You can change the entire series at one time: Select the chart Right-click on one of the Budget bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a blue colour for the Area, click OK Right-click on one of the Actual bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a green colour for the Area, click OK Lynn Bartling wrote: I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
Lynn -
Sounds like you have budget and actual in the same series. You should have three columns of data: Date (or Department, whatever), Budget, and Actual. Make a clustered column chart of the data in these three columns, so the budget bars and actual bars are side by side over the Date/Department label. Now you can change the budget and actual bars independently. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Lynn Bartling wrote: This doesn't work. When I right click on one of the Budget bars it selects them all; same for the Actual bars. Lynn "Debra Dalgleish" wrote in message ... You can change the entire series at one time: Select the chart Right-click on one of the Budget bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a blue colour for the Area, click OK Right-click on one of the Actual bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a green colour for the Area, click OK Lynn Bartling wrote: I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
To the left I have the monetary amount; on the bottom I do have Budget and
Actual together...by date (i.e. Jan 2003; Feb 2003; etc.). I'm guessing because they are in the same series that I cannot change them as an individual group. I could have sworn that before I was able to select a group by clicking on the ones I wanted to change when I did this last year - but I guess not. Thanks for your help. Lynn "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... Lynn - Sounds like you have budget and actual in the same series. You should have three columns of data: Date (or Department, whatever), Budget, and Actual. Make a clustered column chart of the data in these three columns, so the budget bars and actual bars are side by side over the Date/Department label. Now you can change the budget and actual bars independently. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Lynn Bartling wrote: This doesn't work. When I right click on one of the Budget bars it selects them all; same for the Actual bars. Lynn "Debra Dalgleish" wrote in message ... You can change the entire series at one time: Select the chart Right-click on one of the Budget bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a blue colour for the Area, click OK Right-click on one of the Actual bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a green colour for the Area, click OK Lynn Bartling wrote: I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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Changing Colors of Bar Graphs
Lynn -
Reread my comment. I meant three columns of data in the worksheet. Column A = Date, Column B = Budget, Column C = Actual. Select this data and reconstruct the chart. Budget and Actual will be in different series in the column chart. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Lynn Bartling wrote: To the left I have the monetary amount; on the bottom I do have Budget and Actual together...by date (i.e. Jan 2003; Feb 2003; etc.). I'm guessing because they are in the same series that I cannot change them as an individual group. I could have sworn that before I was able to select a group by clicking on the ones I wanted to change when I did this last year - but I guess not. Thanks for your help. Lynn "Jon Peltier" wrote in message ... Lynn - Sounds like you have budget and actual in the same series. You should have three columns of data: Date (or Department, whatever), Budget, and Actual. Make a clustered column chart of the data in these three columns, so the budget bars and actual bars are side by side over the Date/Department label. Now you can change the budget and actual bars independently. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services http://PeltierTech.com/Excel/Charts/ _______ Lynn Bartling wrote: This doesn't work. When I right click on one of the Budget bars it selects them all; same for the Actual bars. Lynn "Debra Dalgleish" wrote in message ... You can change the entire series at one time: Select the chart Right-click on one of the Budget bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a blue colour for the Area, click OK Right-click on one of the Actual bars From the shortcut menu, choose FormatData Series Select a green colour for the Area, click OK Lynn Bartling wrote: I have a graph that shows budget and actual amounts for each month of the year for 2003. I want the budget bars to be blue and the actual bars to be green. Is there a way to select all the budget bars at the same time and change the colors and then do the same for the actual bars? Or do I need to select each bar individually and change the color? -- Debra Dalgleish Excel FAQ, Tips & Book List http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html |
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