{"id":941,"date":"2012-11-15T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vm-officeblogs.cloudapp.net\/2012\/11\/15\/chart-styles-in-the-new-microsoft-office\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T04:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:36:26","slug":"chart-styles-in-the-new-microsoft-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/chart-styles-in-the-new-microsoft-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Styles in the new Microsoft Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is brought to you by Robin Wakefield, a Program Manager on the Graphics team.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been working in the data visualization area for the last two releases and this is a feature I hold dear to my heart. In a previous article I talked about how you can make your charts look professional using Excel 2007.\u00a0 In the latest release we worked with our amazing design team in Office to modify the default style for charts and create a variety of other styles which should make this task much easier.\u00a0 Of course the example used in the previous article was a customized chart so you won\u2019t get that chart out of the box but you will have a clean nice looking chart to start with.<\/p>\n

Introducing the new default style<\/h2>\n

When you insert a chart in Office 2013 you will see some noticeable differences.<\/p>\n

Office 2010 Default<\/h3>\n

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Office 2013 Default<\/h3>\n

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Overall I think this a vast improvement from the past and a basic chart in Office will look great without any additional effort on your part.\u00a0 Here are some of the changes we made and why:<\/p>\n