How to Create a Bar Graph From an Excel Spreadsheet

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Amar Enhsaihan, I'm going to show you how to create a bar graph from Excel Worksheet. Go to Excel, you have information in Excel that you want to create a chart from. In my case I have sales data for ten years for three people, Bob, Sam, Kat, so let's say I want to create a bar chart. So, it's a little easier to see how they're doing. So, I highlight the information and then you have, you go to the tool bar, and you should have a button called chart wizard, you click on it, and if you don't have that button, make sure you click on the menu. Make sure that you have the bar chart, tool bar option checked. So, once you open that, this window opens up and the first option is a bar chart option, you click next, and this is how your chart is going to look like. You click next, and you have an option to enter a title, let's say sales for ten years, category X, that would be X here, so that's years, value Y, that would be sales, you click next. It asks where you want the chart, you can have it as an object in this worksheet, or you can have it in a separate sheet. I want it here, so as an object in graph, and you click finish. There it is, sales data for Bob, Sam, and Kat. You see years on X, axis, and you hit see sales on Y, axis, and you have the title here. And, that's how you create bar chart from Excel Worksheet. I'm Amar Enhsaihan, thank you for watching!"