Column Chart

Spreadsheet Format

Each row represents a data point on the chart. Learn more about spreadsheets in Visuals at Use Spreadsheet Data.

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3 (and beyond...)
Data Type	plain text or numbers	number	number
Contents	The category of the data point on the x-axis.	The value of the data point on the y-axis. This forms the column.	An additional y-axis value for the category in the x-axis.This creates a data set with an extra column. Note: You can have as many additional columns as you want to create new data sets. For example, if you were creating a column chart of Olympic medals per country, and had "USA" and "France" in Column 1, you could create three additional columns for "Bronze", "Silver", and "Gold" medal breakdowns.
Data Label	The title of the x-axis Note: This will appear below the individual categories on the x-axis	The bar's group Note: This determines the color of the bar; bars in the same group will share a color This labels the group (and group color) in the legend	The bar's group Note: This determines the color of the bar; bars in the same group will share a color This labels the group (and group color) in the legend
Required	x	x