In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a vertical bar to highlight a specific spot in a chart. I’m using Microsoft 365 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but you can use earlier ...

Open Microsoft Excel. Click the "File" tab. Click "Open." Navigate to the chart to add notes onto and double-click the name of the file. Right-click the chart.

Click "Developer" from Excel's ribbon. Click "Insert" from the Controls group, and click the scroll bar icon. Click and drag over the chart to add a scroll bar.

You can also choose a 3-D chart to add some aesthetic texture to the graph. These different graph options are relatively easy to create in Excel when you're looking to visually represent a data range.

To get you started using charts, here are the most common types of charts used in Excel and when you’d want to use them: Column and bar charts: These chart types are very similar, with column ...