{"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 When you insert a chart in Office 2013 you will see some noticeable differences.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 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 You will also see that not every chart type will have the same exact defaults as we have optimized it for that particular chart type.\u00a0 For example on a scatter chart you will now get horizontal and vertical gridlines by default.<\/p>\n Now that you have a clean beautiful chart by default you could just go with that, but sometimes you really want to make an impact and do something a little different.\u00a0 We previously introduced the buttons that showed up when you select a chart in Chris\u2019s article and the new chart styles are contained in the second button.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here you will see a variety of chart styles that are optimized for the chart type that you currently have selected.\u00a0 These chart styles not only have the power to change the formatting of your chart but they can add, remove, and re-arrange elements on your chart.<\/p>\n For example applying the second style will make your chart look like this:<\/p>\nIntroducing the new default style<\/h2>\n
Office 2010 Default<\/h3>\n
Office 2013 Default<\/h3>\n
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Additional chart styles<\/h2>\n