So the next thing I'll take a look at here dealing with charts is doing a little bit of formatting.
I want to change colors the default colors that you get on the chart.
They're great but they're just the default colors.
So I want to add a little bit of spice to this chart.
Really start to draw attention maybe rather than this big orange bar.
I want a nice big red bar this gray kind of music Gray.
Let's turn that green let's change some formatting options here.
So just like everything else that you do with the chart.
The first thing you need to do is select the chart so select the chart up above.
I get my design and Format tab.
Now I pointed out earlier that on the Design tab you do get some charts styles and these are just some
canned formatting.
If I just hover my mouse over the top of them you'll see what it does to my chart there in the background
.
There's some pretty neat ones like this Darkman kind of close kind of a neon bar.
Now with the nice one.
These are just can't out of the box you're in a pinch.
You need to hurry up and create a chart and format it.
You got styles that you can pick from.
And there's some neat ones there but if you want to get into the nitty gritty and really start to format
it on your own I'll go over to the Format tab on the Format tab you've got all your formatting options
.
We are talking about formatting shapes earlier.
A lot of this stuff is the same same options.
So let's see.
I want to change the big orange one I want to make it some form of red sauce like the big orange one
but orange bar here and notice that not only did the one data point in the series get selected but all
of them did.
These are the credit card values.
So if that's selected I'll go up to form that I'm going to go in the shape styles and I'm going to change
the shape.
Let's go for this kind of darker red color.
I like that this gray kind of muted.
Let's grab that.
Go back to shape ville and I'm going to make it green.
The Oreo pops it a little bit more a little more presentable not as muted as a color but it's a choice
.
Right.
It's a preference.
The idea here is you can format the chart.
Let's try some more here.
Let's see.
I'm going to grab the chart grid.
This kind of background here of my chart.
And I want to make some changes to it.
Well once again I'll go to my format time.
I've got my shapes styles.
Let's try adding a background to that.
I'm going to make this kind of a gray color and I like just for on white but you know what that's maybe
perhaps a little bit too gray.
Let's lighten it up a little bit.
So now it's not as strong as a contrast against a white background but I kind of muted it down a little
bit just to give it a subtle subtle gray background.
Let's try something else out here with formatted.
If I want to change the legend.
Right now my Legend is pretty small.
I want to increase the font size here so if I click on my Legend I do have some word art styles.
You reckon change colors but I want to change the font size and perhaps make them bold.
Do you remember where we found those options are there.
They're on the Home tab.
I go to home and I got my font commands right there.
So I'll pump up the size go to like 12 a month make them bold get that legend to really stand out.
You know what let's make it's kind of competing with my title now let's make the title even bigger Let's
go 20 and I'll make that bold.
All right.
Looking pretty good.
I can do the same thing with my numbers down below I can cite my access my y or my X access and I can
format those as well.
Let's make my months let's make those bold.
Let's grab the numbers here maybe I'll make those bold right just formatting this chart making it more
presentable than whether you're using the design tab with styles.
You're just again in a pinch need to hurry up and format it.
You've got the Kansteiner.
You can use or you can go to your format tab and to your heart's content you can format this thing any
way that you want.
Try this out format your chart.
Again don't get too wacky with it.
You want to start distracting from a simple little message but any way to enhance the message format
it get the audience get their attention.
Draw them in.
Format it in such a way that will make it more exciting and more presentable.
Try it out.