Change chart color based on value in Excel
Sometimes, when you insert a chart, you may want to show different value ranges as different colors in the chart. For example, when the value range is 0-60, show series color as blue, if 71-80 then show grey, if 81-90 show color as yellow and so on as below screenshot shown. Now this tutorial will introduce the ways for you to change chart color based on value in Excel.
Change column/bar chart color based on value
Method 1:Change bar char color based on value by using formulas and built-in chart feature
Method 2:Change bar char color based on value by using a handy tool
Change line chart color based on value
Firstly, you need to create the data as below screenshot shown, list each value range, and then next to the data, insert the value range as column headers.
1. In cell C5, type this formula
Then drag fill handle down to fill cells, then continue dragging the handle right.
2. Then select the Column Name, hold Ctrl key, select the formula cells including value range headers.
3. click "Insert" > "Insert Column or Bar Chart", select "Clustered Column" or "Cluster Bar" as you need.
Then the chart has been inserted, and the chart colors are different based on the value.
Sometimes, using the formula to create a chart may cause some errors while the formulas are wrong or deleted. Now the "Change chart color by value" tool of Kutools for Excel can help you.
After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:
1. Click "Kutools" > "Charts" > "Change chart color by value". See screenshot:
2. In the popping dialog, do as these:
1) Select the chart type you want, then select the axis labels and series values separately except column headers.
2) Then click "Add" button 
to add a value range as you need.
3) Repeat above step to add all value ranges to the "Groups" list. Then click Ok.
Tip:
1. You can double click the column or bar to display the "Format Data Point" pane to change the color.
2. If there has been inserted a column or bar chart before, you can apply this tool - "Color Chart by Value" to change the color of chart based on value.
Select the bar chart or column chart, then click "Kutools" > "Charts" > "Color Chart by Value". Then in the popped-out dialog, set the value range and the relative color as you need. Click to free download now!
If you want to insert a line chart with different colors based on values, you need another formula.
Firstly, you need to create the data as below screenshot shown, list each value range, and then next to the data, insert the value range as column headers.
Note: the series value must be sorted from A to Z.
1. In cell C5, type this formula
Then drag fill handle down to fill cells, then continue dragging the handle right.
3. Select the data range including the value range headers and the formula cells, see screenshot:
4. click "Insert" > "Insert Line or Area Chart", select "Line" type.
Now the line chart has been created with different color lines by values.
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