How does an Excel chart make a bold edge area chart for business?

When describing the trend of data, you can use area Chart + line chart, in order to make this presentation more business and atmosphere, you can follow the following steps to deal with.

Method/Step

As shown in Figure 1 is a set of raw data, select this 2nd column of data, insert a line chart, you can get a line graph, but the x axis data is not added, after the chart data need to be selected, design-select data-Horizontal axis label-Select the year column data in this example to get the line chart shown in Figure 2.

The 1th step is to generate a line chart, this step is to generate an area chart, as shown in Figure 1, select the data column again, CTRL + C copy, select the chart area, Ctrl + V paste, then found that the same curve covered the original curve, as shown in Figure 2.

By selecting the data in Legend 2 and changing the chart type-area chart, you get a rough area chart with polylines (Figure 1).

Adjust the axis format, set the position axis to on tick marks, and after adjusting, as shown in Figure 2, the starting position of the area chart has been coincident with the axis alignment.

Beautify Step 1: Set the area chart to fill the gradient fill, as shown in Figure 1 below.

Landscaping Step 2: Set the line color to the theme color (this example is orange)

Beautification Step 3: Delete gridlines and legends, set the ordinate axis to "none", you can get the effect shown in Figure 2, the chart is basically formed. Finally, set the chart area background color is light gray, the results shown in Figure 3.

Landscaping Step 4: Appropriately add some data point labels, text boxes, headings, etc., form the style, as shown in the figure below.

The above is the Excel chart how to make the business fan the Bold Edge area chart method Introduction, hoped can be helpful to everybody!