You can use the master checkbox at the top to quickly toggle the filter for all items, either on or off. The automatic preview will show you items in the chart as you hover over them. You can use the filter icon to add or remove both Data series and individual categories. This menu lets you filter the data is displayed in the chart. Notice that chart styles and colors available in the paint brush icon are also available on the Design tab of the ribbon, Under Chart Tools.įinally, the filter icon is called Chart Filters. To apply, just select and click away from the chart. It is not possible to add the chart filter buttons as shown in Figure 5.59. You can add a chart title by clicking the Add Chart Element button from the Design tab.
Click the color tab to see the colors available. Mac Users: Excel for Mac does not insert these formatting changes within a Pivot Chart.
The Paint brush icon also allows you to apply color schemes.
Use the scrollbar to see your chart previewed with each style. The paint brush icon is named chart styles and let's you access chart styles and colors. Excel will then display a menu of available sub options.įor example, I can use that menu to move the data labels outside the bars, or inside the bars. To access a second level click the arrow to the right of a given element.
Here you'll find options for a long list of chart elements, including axis and axis titles, the chart title, Data labels, Data table, error bars, gridlines, legend, and trendlines.įor example, to add data labels to this chart, click the plus icon, then check Data labels. This menu lets you quickly enable and disable chart elements. When you click the icon, you'll see a list of common chart elements displayed as checkboxes.
The plus icon is actually a fly out menu called Chart Elements. Creating a pivot chart from scratch is as simple as creating a pivot table. One is to add a pivot chart in your existing pivot table, and other is to create a pivot chart from scratch. Whenever you select a chart in later versions of Excel, you'll see three icons appear at the upper right edge: the plus icon, the paint brush icon, and the filter icon. You can create a pivot chart by using two ways. This menus have names, but you'll see them as the plus icon, the paint brush icon, and the filter icon. In this video, we'll look at the three special menus that appear whenever you select a chart in Excel.