From the course: Excel Spreadsheet Design: Extreme Makeover
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Impress stakeholders by customizing chart colors - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel Spreadsheet Design: Extreme Makeover
Impress stakeholders by customizing chart colors
- [Instructor] Okay, you've now completed a full makeover of an Excel workbook, but let's say that we've received some criticism or maybe just feedback from stakeholders about the chart colors. Now this might seem like an unlikely piece of feedback, but let me assure you, in my experience, this is perhaps the most commonly encountered value add from stakeholders. Luckily, we can appease them with just a few clicks. With the exercise file open for this movie, let's firstly go ahead and un-protect the sheet by clicking on Review, and then Unprotect Sheet. This will allow us to make some changes to the charts. Say that our manager wants the chart colors to be consistent with the orange heading here. With the first chart selected, let's click on the Format tab and then select Format selection. This will open a pane on the right-hand side of the screen with a wealth of features that we can tinker with. Let's start by selecting the larger wedge here in the chart and change the fill color to…
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