Excel Grouped Bar Chart

The pivot chart tool is so powerful that it can help you to create a chart with one kind of labels grouped by another kind of labels in a two lever axis easily in excel.

Excel grouped bar chart. After arranging the data select the data range that you want to create a chart based on and then click insert insert column or bar chart stacked column see screenshot. This can consider the higher version of the bar chart. Where the bar chart draws the relation of two parameters.

Right click the data series bar and then choose format data series see screenshot. Here you have your chart for grouped data. Select the data range.

In above shown image you can see the bar chart. Now in toolbar under design option select change chart type option. Clustered bar chart is a bar chart in excel which represents data virtually in horizontal bars in series similar to clustered column charts these charts are easier to make but are visually complex and if there is a single category with multiple data it is easy to compare using this chart but as the categories increases the comparison becomes more complex.

It s also one of the easiest chart types to set up. You can do as follows. Choose stacked column option.

In this chart the column bars related to different series are located near one other but they are not stacked. Go to insert tab from the chart group click on bar chart. Click on ok we will have a clustered bar chart now.

A clustered bar chart is generally known as a grouped bar chart. This is a type of bar chart or column chart. Create a pivot chart with selecting the source data and.

Consider a grouped data like shown below. Select data and under insert option in toolbar in column select first option. Then insert a blank row after every zone.

More than a bar chart this helps to represent data of comparison more than one category. Drop down list will appear of bar chart insert 2d bar chart. 1 in excel 2007 and 2010 clicking the pivottable pivotchart in the tables group on the insert tab.

The visual comparisons become much transparent.