There are two ways to create multiseries charts.
#CREATE SMART SERIAL NUMBER IN EXCEL SERIES#
You can turn line and smooth line charts into area charts by increasing their fill opacity in the Series tab. Line and smooth line charts with Parse dates enabled that have missing or empty data points can be configured to either connect the data points or leave breaks in the line.
Column charts are best suited for data with discrete categories, but you can also use them to display data with continuous categories.ĭata with continuous categories, such as dates, are best suited for line and smoothed line charts. Columns can be horizontal or vertical, depending on the chart's orientation. On a column chart, data points in the series are represented by a box where the height of the box is determined by numerical values of points. You can choose the series type from the Series tab. Each series type is best suited for a different type of data. Serial charts can either be column, or line or smooth line charts. You can display the vertical columns horizontally by changing the orientation of the axes, so that the horizontal axis displays values and the vertical axis displays categories. In the previous chart, the categories are displayed along the horizontal axis, and the values are displayed along the vertical axis. The category axis can show discrete values or continuous values such as dates. Axis-One axis in a serial chart displays the category of each data point, while the other axis displays its numeric value.Axis title-Summarizes the types of categories or values shown on the axis.You can also control value axis labels through unit prefixing or number formatting. For instance, when the category axis shows dates, you can adjust their display through date formatting. Labels are automatically generated however, you can override them at design time. Label-Describes categories and values.How you configure the data in the chart determines the position of the chart's legend. Legend-Conveys the meaning of colors used in the chart.In addition, serial charts can have multiple guides. Guides can be lines that represent a single value or a shaded area that represents a range of values. Guides-Provide context to the data being displayed on a chart by representing goals or thresholds.You can control how horizontal and vertical grid lines are displayed. Hover text-Displays additional information about a data point while you hover over it.Scroll bar-Allows users to control the number of data categories displayed.In the following example describing the components of a serial chart, the series showing crime counts by day has the column type and the series showing the three-day rolling average of crime counts has the line type. Each series in a serial chart has a type that determines the way the data points are visualized. In the following chart, there are two series of data: one showing crime counts by day and the other showing a three-day rolling average of crime counts. Serial charts show more than one series of data.
A serial chart visualizes one or more series of data points along a horizontal (x) axis and a vertical (y) axis.