To change the outline colors of the chart area, the vertical axis and the bars to black: Repeat the process for all remaining categories until the bars of each category have different colors.Alternatively, click on each next bar and change its fill color manually. Continue to select each next bar of the second category by pressing the Right key on the keyboard and then press F4 to repeat the fill action. On the Format tab under Chart Tools choose a color for that bar in the Shape Fill drop down menu.Click on the bars to select them and then click on the first bar of the second category.To give different colors to the bars of each category:

In the first cell of the first row of each inserted pair of blank rows, type a space character by pressing the Spacebar on the keyboard.Insert two blank rows between the data for each category.

To add blank space between the categories in the chart: Finally, to make the chart more readable, add some blank space between the categories in the chart, give different colors to the bars of each category and change the outline colors of the chart area, the vertical axis and the bars and the text color of the chart to black. Remove the Horizontal Axis, the Chart Title and the Gridlines by unchecking these options in the Chart Elements menu.Ħ. Add data labels to the chart by checking the Data Labels option in the Chart Elements menu.ĥ. In the Format Data Series task pane, change the gap width to 50% by either typing 50 in the Gap Width box and pressing Enter on the keyboard or moving the slider to the left.Ĥ.Double-click on the bars to open the Format Data Series task pane.

Note: If some subcategory labels are missing, increase the height of the chart until it shows all subcategory labels.ģ. This inserts a multi-category chart into the worksheet. Select the data and on the Insert tab of the ribbon, in the Charts group, click on the Insert Bar Chart button and in the opened menu, click on the first option, which is Clustered Bar, among the 2-D Bar charts. The store’s products fall under 3 main categories: clothing, shoes and accessories.Ģ. For the purpose of this tutorial, suppose you have sales figures for different products of an online store for a month. Arrange the data in the following way: Enter main category names in the first column, subcategory names in the second column and the figure for each subcategory in the third column in the format shown below. To create a multi-category chart in Excel, take the following steps:ġ. If you prefer written instructions, then continue reading. Watch the video below to see how to create a multi-category chart in Excel. In other Excel versions, there may be some slight differences in the described steps. This type of chart is useful when you have figures for items that belong to different categories. Multi-category chart or multi-level category chart is a chart type that has both main category and subcategory labels.

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