How to Customize and Improve an Excel Line Chart

Excel’s built-in line chart already has a nice appearance, but there is always room for improvement. It makes sense to start with the standard modifications in order to give your graph a distinctive and polished appearance.

1. Adding or Removing the Chart Elements

We can also add or remove the chart elements. For this, we need to select our chart and then click the plus(+) icon. This will open various chart elements, which we can add or remove by checking or unchecking the checkbox option.

2. Adding Axis Titles and Legend

In this step, we will add the axis title and the legend for our line chart. For this, we need to perform the same previous step and add the chart titles and the legend. For axis titles, we will use No. Of Sales for Y-axis and Year for X-axis, and we will position the legend at the top.

3. Changing the Style of the Graph

In this step, we will try to change the style of the graph. For this, we need to select our graph and click on the chart style option. It will show various inbuilt styles for the graph. We can use whatever style we want.

Hopefully, this extensive overview of Excel’s Line Chart has given you a general idea of what line charts in Excel are, and how to create one, along with how to Customize and Improve an Excel Line Graph.

Also read:

• How to Make a Bar Graph in Excel
• How to Make a Pie Chart in Excel

A Line Chart is a graph or curve that is used to present the data information as a series of data points. These data points are called Markers, and these markers are connected through straight-line segments. The Line curve is usually very informative in understanding and tracking the changes over different periods, usually over short and long periods.

A line chart can contain a single line to represent one dataset and can contain multiple lines to represent multiple datasets. Let’s take random sales data as the dataset and represent it in bar graphs for visualization.