You can change the default color of chart, graph, treemap, etc. in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with the helpof these simple steps. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content ...

Microsoft Excel gives you a boatload of options for changing the format of color charts. You can change the layout of a chart, then customize that layout to the format you prefer.

Access this pane when you'd like to change an Excel legend's color coding. Color Your Legend Open Excel's Format Legend pane by right-clicking the legend in a chart and selecting "Format Legend." ...

Follow the steps below to change the Chart Type in Excel: Select the Chart, then click the Change Chart Type button in the Type group on the Chart Design tab. A Change Chart Type dialog box will open.

When you use Excel's Chart Wizard to create a chart, by default the chart takes on the number formats used in the worksheet that includes the charted data. Mary Ann Richardson shows you a way to ...

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.