Instead of manually adding or changing chart elements or formatting the chart, you can quickly apply a predefined layout and style to your chart. Office provides a variety of useful predefined …

Change the look of a chart, using color or Chart Styles, on in Office 2016 for Windows. Use Live Preview to see what the changes look like before accepting them.

Training: In the Microsoft Office apps, change the look of your charts with Chart Styles, colors, and more. See how in this online video.

You can instantly change the look of chart elements (such as the chart area, the plot area, data markers, titles in charts, gridlines, axes, tick marks, trendlines, error bars, or the walls and floor …

Learn how to save a chart as a template. Create an Excel chart template to reuse a chart and apply it to other data to create a similar chart.

This article describes the different types of charts in Excel and other Office programs. Read a description of the available chart types in Office.

Learn to create a chart and add a trendline. You can start your document from a recommended chart or choose one from our collection of pre-built chart templates.

Learn how to create a chart in Excel with recommended charts. Excel can analyze your data and make chart suggestions for you.

For example, in the pie chart below, without the data labels it would be difficult to tell that coffee was 38% of total sales. You can format the labels to show specific labels elements like, the …

Double-click anywhere in the chart portion of the Gantt Chart view (but not on individual bars) to display the Bar Styles window. In the Name column, select the type of Gantt bar (such as Task …