In this article, I show you how to create quarterly charts in Excel.
Quarterly sales data preparation
To enter your data into Excel, click on cell to select it. Type in the first label for your data (for example, "Quarter"). Press the tab key and enter the next label (for example, "Sales"). Repeat this process until you have entered all of your labels into the top row of the spreadsheet.
Based on entered data create quarterly sales data chart for a company have centers in 4 continents.
We have to arrange the data similarly to make it look easy to understand and to plot such reporting graph easily.
Creating quarterly chart
Next step is to create a simple sales quarterly graph from the same. Select the Insert column chart option as shown below:
Then select the stacked column option as shown below:
Next, we can change the look of the chart by switching the rows and columns to group by quarter to make it look better:
Clicking ok will make the graph look like this:
We can make more customizations like adding data labels, as shown below.
We can change the chart title to the quarterly sales by continent, etc. as shown below:
Excel provides a variety of options for formatting your chart. You can change the colors, add data labels, adjust the axis labels, and more. To access these options, right-click on your chart and select "Format Chart Area". From here, you can make changes to the appearance of your chart.
By default, Excel will automatically determine the range of values for the x and y-axis of your chart. If you want to change the range of values, you can do so by right-clicking on your chart and selecting "Format Axis". From here, you can adjust the minimum and maximum values for the x and y-axis.
Once you have finished formatting your chart, you can save it. To do this, go to the "File" menu and select "Save". Give your chart a meaningful name (for example, "Quarterly Sales Chart").
I am attaching the Excel sheet with Quarterly Chart template for you.