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Use a SmartArt graphic to create an organization chart in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Word to show the reporting relationships in an organization, such as department managers and non-management employees.
In a chart, click the value axis that you want to change, or do the following to select the axis from a list of chart elements: Click anywhere in the chart. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design and Format tabs.
The simplest way to insert a chart from an Excel spreadsheet into your Word document is to use the copy and paste commands. You can change the chart, update it, and redesign it without ever leaving Word. If you change the data in Excel, you can automatically refresh the chart in Word.
Change the formatting style of chart elements manually. Save a chart as a chart template. Use predefined layouts or styles to change the look of a chart in Office apps.
You can format the labels to show specific labels elements like, the percentages, series name, or category name. There are a lot of formatting options for data labels. You can use leader lines to connect the labels, change the shape of the label, and resize a data label.
After creating a chart, you might need to add an additional data series to the chart. A data series is a row or column of numbers that are entered in a worksheet and plotted in your chart, such as a list of quarterly business profits.
Whether you’ll use a chart that’s recommended for your data, one that you’ll pick from the list of all charts, or one from our selection of chart templates, it might help to know a little more about each type of chart.
If your chart contains chart titles (ie. the name of the chart) or axis titles (the titles shown on the x, y or z axis of a chart) and data labels (which provide further detail on a particular data point on the chart), you can edit those titles and labels.
You can change the format of individual chart elements, such as the chart area, plot area, data series, axes, titles, data labels, or legend. Two sets of tools are available for formatting chart elements: the Format task pane and the Chart Tools Ribbon .
Change axis labels in a chart. In a chart you create, axis labels are shown below the horizontal (category, or "X") axis, next to the vertical (value, or "Y") axis, and next to the depth axis (in a 3-D chart). Your chart uses text from its source data for these axis labels.
This article explains how to create a flow chart that contains pictures. You can use the methods described in this article to create or change almost any SmartArt graphic. Try different layouts to achieve the results you want.