Simple Excel Trick to Conditionally Format Your Bar Charts

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If you want to help your audience to make sense of your Excel chart quickly, consider color coding it. In this video I'll show you how you can apply Conditional Formatting to show different colors for positive and negative deviations. This way you can quickly create an Excel bar chart with conditional formatting based on change % or based on any logic you choose.
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Comparison charts and bar graphs in Excel can be quite intimidating and force the reader to spend considerable time to make sense of them. Color can help to immediately grasp important patterns in the chart like good and bad performance. Research also shows that information that's color coded is easier understood and better retained in memory. For example if you use a column or bar chart to show deviations you can have a different color for negative values to positive values. You might choose to show the bars for negative values in red and positives values in green or any other color of your choice.
I'll show you a technique how you can apply such conditional formatting to any type of chart in Excel. As a bonus tip I'll cover how to emphasize a particular part of a chart like the maximum value by defining a logic.
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00:00 Conditional formatting of charts
00:48 Setting up first bar chart
03:17 Setting up the deviation chart
05:31 Negative red, positive green
06:31 Conditional formatting of maximum value or other logic
09:32 Finalizing the charts (grouping charts together)
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  • @LeilaGharani
    @LeilaGharani6 ай бұрын

    Grab the file I used in the video from here 👉 pages.xelplus.com/conditional-bar-chart-file

  • @mr.brownstone5716
    @mr.brownstone57164 жыл бұрын

    Seeing the copy chart format was worth the price of admission alone!!

  • @mireillecantrell4638
    @mireillecantrell46384 жыл бұрын

    Love the way you present ways to take Excel to the next level. I like downloading your sample spreadsheet. I attach the link to the video so I can play it over so I can do it from memory. Thanks so much for your expertise!!! Extremely informative!!!

  • @jschwone2607
    @jschwone26074 жыл бұрын

    Excellent as always. A big thank you for making you lessons available for EVERYONE.

  • @excelworx8712
    @excelworx87124 жыл бұрын

    I thought I knew a bit about charting, but this is light years ahead of me! Thanks Leila

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @anashammoudeh7930
    @anashammoudeh7930 Жыл бұрын

    You are the next level Excel Guru that I needed in my life, THANK YOU!

  • @eduardomoraalpizar9578
    @eduardomoraalpizar95784 жыл бұрын

    Im in love with the "invert if negative" graph format, thanks for the tips!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're so welcome, Eduardo!

  • @vijayarjunwadkar
    @vijayarjunwadkar4 жыл бұрын

    Another great tip! Thanks Leila! Learning a lot from your videos and looking forward eagerly for more!

  • @adityapatnaik6079
    @adityapatnaik60794 жыл бұрын

    Leila is an example of pedagogical prodigy ! great work

  • @phuonghuynh7641
    @phuonghuynh76413 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! I love your work so much. Thank you, Leila.

  • @RobertShooter
    @RobertShooter4 жыл бұрын

    Really handy tip. I deal with a lot of chart data so this will come in handy. Thanks Leila

  • @southupnorth
    @southupnorth4 жыл бұрын

    This example was really effective. You highlighted some useful features which will save me a lot of time. Thanks.

  • @aguerojg
    @aguerojg4 жыл бұрын

    What a fantastic video, Leila, thank you very much for this great tutorial !

  • @tonip73
    @tonip734 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos. I love learning new tips & tricks :)

  • @chh8860
    @chh88604 жыл бұрын

    Clever … so very clever ... but most importantly, so quickly informative. Sidebar Comment Every week I marvel at the simple but effective presentations … like watching an Olympic figure skater easily gliding around the rink effortlessly executing one jump after another (or for the three 'older' viewers … like watching the American actress/dancer Ginger Rogers (from the 1930's) dancing w/Fred Astaire … flawless.

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thank you!

  • @krn14242
    @krn142424 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila. Thursday's are much better now knowing your video comes out. :)

  • @rajeevgosavi4514
    @rajeevgosavi45142 жыл бұрын

    Leila, You Are too good.What a lovely presentation , yet simple to understand. I am certainly going to use them in my presentation.

  • @natashalazarovska5092
    @natashalazarovska50924 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila, you really are the best!

  • @juliushouehou3632
    @juliushouehou36324 жыл бұрын

    It's always exciting to watch these videos... It's so instructive and concise at the same time. I can't wait for the next video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Ms. Leila.

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Happy to hear that, Julius!

  • @yixinwong5702
    @yixinwong57022 жыл бұрын

    Yes i enjoyed these excel chart tricks. Thank you so much!

  • @ricos1497
    @ricos14974 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic. I love your chart videos. One of a few on youtube that concentrate on formatting/presentation and clarity, which seems to get lost on many tutorials, but is vital. Most of my data is Data Model derived these days in an attempt to make it more dynamic, but I'll definitely apply this technique to the pivot chart as opposed to the normal chart (I wish the two were completely aligned). Great work!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like them, Rico!

  • @Excelist_
    @Excelist_4 жыл бұрын

    Great ideas and tricks as always, thanks for sharing!

  • @felixgar1000
    @felixgar1000 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your explanation. Perfect!

  • @vijaykrishnan4151
    @vijaykrishnan41513 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy your videos, very clear to the point. Thank you for sharing such informative videos.

  • @Stepford
    @Stepford4 жыл бұрын

    Very useful tips and well presented as usual! Thanks for sharing Leila :)

  • @yff7509
    @yff7509 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! This is real magic!

  • @DougHExcel
    @DougHExcel4 жыл бұрын

    Great vid on Conditional Formatting for charting!

  • @raviakula617
    @raviakula6174 жыл бұрын

    Irrespective of implementation, I always watch your videos like a daily bulletin. Simply cool 🎯 and thanks for sharing 🙌

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure, I appreciate that!

  • @AndrewJohnClive
    @AndrewJohnClive2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila - this is just great!!

  • @okpigheconrad4299
    @okpigheconrad4299 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much, huge fan of your work

  • @yulinliu850
    @yulinliu8504 жыл бұрын

    Love your Excel chart tricks 👍

  • @wayneedmondson1065
    @wayneedmondson10654 жыл бұрын

    Hi Leila.. AWESOME!! These tips really supercharge the chart creation process! Invert if negative, Copy and Paste Special Formats, Object Grouping, etc. All super valuable! Thanks for sharing them :)) Thumbs up!!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Wayne!

  • @vladimirjovanovich3341
    @vladimirjovanovich33414 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila! Nice to learn one more thing from you. Keep them coming!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    More to come, Vladimir!

  • @terrymakoilan1015
    @terrymakoilan10154 жыл бұрын

    Stunning!

  • @nonoobott8602
    @nonoobott86024 жыл бұрын

    Wow! Wow!! Wow!!. Absolutely amazing tip Leila. Explanation is very lucid. Thanks a million for sharing 👏

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    You're so welcome!

  • @excelisfun
    @excelisfun4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Teammate!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you too, teammate!

  • @markpodesta4605
    @markpodesta46054 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Leila. You know your stuff!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you think so!

  • @johnborg5419
    @johnborg54194 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila. That was Fun!! : )

  • @robertgutierrez3733
    @robertgutierrez37334 жыл бұрын

    Excelente muy buen video, muy profesional muchas gracias Leila

  • @arturoguzman5230
    @arturoguzman52304 жыл бұрын

    I felt in love 😍

  • @geoffphil
    @geoffphil4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent, as usual. Thanks.

  • @mohammadashiq9996
    @mohammadashiq99964 жыл бұрын

    thank you easy to know , I like the way you simplify.

  • @jorgelara3116
    @jorgelara31164 жыл бұрын

    Thanks !! You are amazing

  • @ajexcel
    @ajexcel4 жыл бұрын

    Great tric to have thank you Leila...👍🏻

  • @FaysalEasyExcel
    @FaysalEasyExcel4 жыл бұрын

    You are great. Thanks, i'll apply it in my next videos.

  • @jasvirsingh9754
    @jasvirsingh97544 жыл бұрын

    Oh Leila....no words to express my thanks ...this is exactly what i was trying to do for quite some time........thanks from the core of my 💓..........you are really a life savior......

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure 😊

  • @mbianalytics
    @mbianalytics3 жыл бұрын

    This is something I never believe can be done in Excel. Leila you are awesome!!!!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @akilamalli
    @akilamalli4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for the great trick of Charts..

  • @nikhilwarang
    @nikhilwarang Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Leila it is a valuable information!

  • @GarthShaner
    @GarthShaner4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tip!

  • @timpullen6487
    @timpullen6487 Жыл бұрын

    Hello Leila, Thanks a million for all of your brilliant videos. I have learnt a great deal from you. One thing is I notice in this video there is a lot of low frequency bonk bonk bonk sound when you type or bump the desk surface. I am a sound engineer and suggest that you place a low pass cut filter in your audio signal chain, some mixing desks have a LOW CUT button, otherwise you could try turning the bass down. Anything below 100 Hz or 200 Hz you would be best getting rid of. The other thing I have to thank you for is that you don't have annoying music in the background. Well done! 🙂

  • @AbhishekTripathidce
    @AbhishekTripathidce4 жыл бұрын

    Really very nice bar chart trick . I m gonna use this in my bar chart. Thank you Leila

  • @DebashishP82
    @DebashishP825 ай бұрын

    Just brilliant one word

  • @Stef1955
    @Stef19554 жыл бұрын

    Leila, I just finished your course on Power Query. I felt like it was tailored made for me. It was that good. Thanks, Mark

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! Glad it was helpful, Mark.

  • @RH-cr9gg
    @RH-cr9gg4 жыл бұрын

    Again thank you!!

  • @jacquelines3093
    @jacquelines30934 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, and you are an excellent teacher.

  • @testingonline7032
    @testingonline70322 жыл бұрын

    You are awesome!!!!

  • @SanjayPatil-dy5iy
    @SanjayPatil-dy5iy2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. This is helpful.

  • @HaseebKhan-lr6ig
    @HaseebKhan-lr6ig4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent!!

  • @sayantanmaitra4908
    @sayantanmaitra49084 жыл бұрын

    Too good. Fabulous

  • @ahmedalbouq8989
    @ahmedalbouq89894 жыл бұрын

    Very nice trick, i've been searching for it for quite a long time. Thanks for the great and unique content as always.

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Happy to help

  • @latepass
    @latepass4 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome!

  • @mohammadashiq9996
    @mohammadashiq99964 жыл бұрын

    Got it thank you Leila making life easy

  • @ResilientRyan88
    @ResilientRyan884 жыл бұрын

    You are a genius.

  • @dougfraser77
    @dougfraser77 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @teoxengineer
    @teoxengineer4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Leila, This trick is so powerful and useful in order to show maks and min. values into a Chart. I learned this technique from your previous lectures and applied in my reports very successful. You are so miracle Leila 🙌. I love you✨

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Emre!

  • @wofdigy
    @wofdigy4 жыл бұрын

    Another great video Leila. Thank you always

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @syedshahfahad7496
    @syedshahfahad74964 жыл бұрын

    Really helpful. This channel helped me a lot, Thank you Leila Gharani

  • @pankajkone123
    @pankajkone1233 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much.

  • @darrylmorgan
    @darrylmorgan4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Leila!Really Impressive Helpful Tips..Thank You :)

  • @markstephens3808
    @markstephens3808 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Leila, that's beautiful in its simplicity and as the third google result for my query on that exact issue I was lucky to click on it first and have the patience to watch the video (I tend to judge things too quickly and thereby miss out!), simple is best, thank you once more:)

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful, Mark!

  • @phungquyen3511
    @phungquyen35113 жыл бұрын

    Incredible, Excel Wizard! Liked and subscribed right away.

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    3 жыл бұрын

    Welcome aboard!

  • @arindamdutta9589
    @arindamdutta95894 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot Leila..👏

  • @HenricAndersen
    @HenricAndersen4 жыл бұрын

    Once again a great video. Thanks Leila 🙏

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! 😃

  • @CarlosAguilar-xw7ot
    @CarlosAguilar-xw7ot4 жыл бұрын

    Bravísimo! Greetings from your #1 fan in México 😄

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yay! Thank you!

  • @chrism9037
    @chrism90374 жыл бұрын

    Very cool tip Leila, thanks!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure, Chris!

  • @inglese2996
    @inglese29963 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much!! I've been trying to do this for ages... you have a new sub :)

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great! Welcome aboard!

  • @michellechong6667

    @michellechong6667

    3 жыл бұрын

    Explanation is precise and so well presented. Thank you so much!

  • @user-ju1it8wf2j
    @user-ju1it8wf2j4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!

  • @KashifMehmood77
    @KashifMehmood774 жыл бұрын

    Great. Thank you

  • @mariostudio7
    @mariostudio74 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are mind blowing! Very good! 📊

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, thanks!

  • @MichaelBrown-lw9kz
    @MichaelBrown-lw9kz6 ай бұрын

    Wow, this was a fantastic presentation. I will definitely be applying this to my reports. Thank you so much

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    6 ай бұрын

    You're very welcome!

  • @askulasaatwik8thc644
    @askulasaatwik8thc6443 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, it's new topic learn

  • @sonamkushwah6846
    @sonamkushwah68462 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much , I love your vedios .....

  • @alpesh417rt
    @alpesh417rt4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome as usual 😊😊😊

  • @RickMenHome
    @RickMenHome Жыл бұрын

    Easy to follow.

  • @rokiczaaa
    @rokiczaaa4 жыл бұрын

    Hah! Thanks for idea how to make better my Tuesday report :) Tomorrow I will add

  • @toomstube
    @toomstube3 жыл бұрын

    Good video, some useful tips there! Conditional formatting on charts can be achieved using a little VBA. I have a simple piece of code which loops through all data points in all series in a chart and colours them green, orange or red based on their value. Happy to share if others would find this useful.

  • @rizbfatango

    @rizbfatango

    2 жыл бұрын

    Can you please share. I'm working on a data set where I need to color the 3 bottom values of data. Thank you

  • @toomstube

    @toomstube

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rizbfatango Not sure how the code will work in a KZread comment but i'll try. I also use the method above for 2 (and 3) different colours of smaller data sets. But one chart I was tracking hourly recordings for a month and so this resulted in 744 datapoints - creating 3 different series to accomodate the above approach just wasn't practical, so i used the code below Sub ChangeChartColours() Dim cht As Chart, s As Series, p As Point Dim vals, i, x As Integer Set cht = ActiveChart On Error Resume Next For i = 1 To 31 '31 as there is up to 31 days in a month Set s = cht.SeriesCollection(i) vals = s.Values For x = LBound(vals) To UBound(vals) If vals(x) > 100 Then With s.Points(x) .Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0) 'Red End With ElseIf vals(x) > 30 Then With s.Points(x) .Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(237, 125, 49) 'Orange End With Else With s.Points(x) .Format.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(112, 173, 71) 'Green End With End If Next x Next i Set cht = Nothing Set s = Nothing End Sub

  • @georgebariamis2002
    @georgebariamis20023 жыл бұрын

    Great video :)

  • @frankradewagen3488
    @frankradewagen34886 ай бұрын

    Hi Leila, thanks for your awesome tutorials, which are simply the best out there. I am currently struggeling with a competition analysis and hope that you have a solution for the following scenario. I have to make sure, that each competitor is always displayed with the assigned color in all graphs, e.g. IBM in Blue, Google in Green, Microsoft in Orange etc. It‘s really awkward to manually assign it to all graphs over and over again. Thanks in advance for your help and looking forward to hearing from you.

  • @gylyjovpy
    @gylyjovpy4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot, your voice like a music to ears. Your fan from Turkmenistan.

  • @17aig
    @17aig4 жыл бұрын

    Another great tutorial thanks a lot

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure!

  • @R808-n6k
    @R808-n6k4 жыл бұрын

    cool nostalgia effect from Udemy class, but I do miss your waterfall graph chart. It was pretty useful for my past project, and boss was impressed. till next week.

  • @felipelandim2881
    @felipelandim28814 жыл бұрын

    Very very good.

  • @akshaytanwar6980
    @akshaytanwar69804 жыл бұрын

    Its amazing

  • @Davion474
    @Davion4744 жыл бұрын

    My company only use google sheets, I just apply the same techniques. I still shine at my job because of your tutorials. Thanks for another awesome one.

  • @LearnwithEtuk
    @LearnwithEtuk8 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @ravikundurthi4749
    @ravikundurthi47492 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @hishamfathy6051
    @hishamfathy6051 Жыл бұрын

    V. good thanks

  • @francispaulonicomedes7748
    @francispaulonicomedes77484 жыл бұрын

    Good logic ill do it in percentage instead hope my idea works :)

  • @KajolPhadnis
    @KajolPhadnis4 жыл бұрын

    So using this in my consulting presentations to clients!!

  • @LeilaGharani

    @LeilaGharani

    4 жыл бұрын

    Great! I hope they'll like it.