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Customizing a Chart

Sometimes a series of columns, bars, or lines doesn’t properly express your data. To create the most informative chart possible, you might want to combine different chart types within a single chart. You can even add one or more axes so that your data can be presented with different scales.

Change a Data-Series Chart

1. Click to select the chart if it isn’t already selected.

2. Click to select the data series you want to change (or, on the Chart Tools Format tab, select the data series in the Chart Elements list box).

3. On the Chart Tools ...