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Reply Wed 5 Dec 2007, 09:54Delegate Julia said...

Julia has attended:
Excel Introduction course

Charts

How do I change the colours on a bar chart?

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Reply Tue 11 Dec 2007, 16:22Trainer Amanda said...

RE: charts

Hi Julia

Thank you for your question, apolgies for the delay in replying.

Once you have created a chart, the rule of thumb is that if you double-click the part or area of the chart you wish to change, you will find all the formatting options for that piece of the chart.

So if you hold your mouse over one of the bars and double click, you will find that you can change the bar colour on the Patterns tab.

I hope this helps.
Amanda

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Select Delimited if the text contains a logical character otherwise select Fixed Width if there are a certain number of spaces between each field.

Click Next when a preview of the data appears. Then select the type of character that separates the various fields. If the character is not listed, select Other and enter the character.

Click Next again and then choose the format for each of the columns. Select the column heading in the Data preview and then select a data type from the Column data format options.

Click Finish and the text will appear in several columns.

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