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Tue 25 Mar 2008, 16:07 Delegate Olly said...

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Excel Introduction course

Bar chart colour

how do you change the colour on a bar graph?

Thu 27 Mar 2008, 03:34 Trainer Nicole said...

RE: bar chart colour

Hi Olly,

I hope you enjoyed your Excel training. Thank you for your question.

Once you have created a bar chart from your data you can format it to make it appear how you want, changing the colours of the bars, the plot area, font, font size etc.

This can be done by a right click on the area you wish to format.

For example to format the colour of your bar, right click on the series that you wish to change. In the dialogue box that appears, left click on

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LARGE and SMALL functions and their uses

Two of Excel's most common functions are the MAX and MIN functions which will display the largest (MAX) or smallest (MIN) value in a series. What if you need the 2nd or 3rd largest or smallest values instead of the largest or smallest?

The =LARGE(array,n) returns the nth largest value of a series.

The =SMALL(array,n) function returns the nth smallest value of a series.

In both functions, 'n' represents the order of the number you want to display. For example, putting in 2 as n will give you the second highest number; putting in 3 as n will give you the third highest number.

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