How to Create Pivot Chart in Excel
In this lesson, you can learn how to create a Pivot Chart in Excel.
Table of Contents
Data preparation
Pivot Chart is similar to the traditional, but has some additional features useful for the analysis of data.
I have prepared table with sales data:
Ensure that your data is organized in a way that makes it easy to create pivot tables and pivot charts. This may involve creating a pivot table or using Excel’s sorting and filtering options.
Creating Pivot Chart
Next, go to Ribbon. Click Insert > PivotTable > PivotChart.
When you choose this option, Excel will guide you through selecting your data range and will automatically create both a Pivot Table and a Pivot Chart linked to it. Choose the range of your table with headers in the dialog box that appears.
You can use the pivot table as the data source. Now, you can create your own Pivot Chart.
Choose fields which you want to put on the Pivot Chart.
Here’s how the Pivot Chart looks once fields are added. It’s a dynamic chart linked to a Pivot Table, allowing you to easily filter and rearrange data directly within the chart.
Customize the appearance of your pivot chart to make it look professional and easy to understand. You can click the filter buttons on the chart (like Country or Customer) to filter values.
Excel inerted also a Pivot Table in your Spreadsheet.
You can change Pivot Chart by changing this Pivot Table. It shows the same values which you see in this Pivot Table.
Try to update / filter / change data in Pivot Table and see, how the Pivot Chart changes.
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