Click the 2-D stacked bar, column, line, pie of pie, bar of pie, area, or stock chart to which you want to add lines or bars. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.

Learn how to change the plotting order in charts, including 3-D charts.

Though Excel doesn’t have a predefined Gantt chart type, you can simulate one by customizing a stacked bar chart to show the start and finish dates of tasks, like this:

If you have multiple data series, you can have multiple slices, but it may be better to use a different type of chart, such as a stacked bar chart or a multi-series line chart.

Change the display of a 3D chart in Office apps. You can change format, rotation, and scaling of 3D charts in Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Learn to create a chart and add a trendline. You can start your document from a recommended chart or choose one from our collection of pre-built chart templates.

Learn how to add a trendline in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to display visual data trends. Format a trend or moving average line to a chart.

Add drill up/drill down to a chart or matrix in Power View so it shows just one level at a time. Report readers drill down for details or drill up for summary data.

Display or hide axes, or change other aspects of a chart axes in Excel, Word, Outlook, or PowerPoint.

For most 2-D charts, you can change the chart type of the whole chart to give the chart a different look, or you can select a different chart type for any single data series, which turns the chart into a …

Learn how to emphasize data by combining two or more charts.