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Quickly create a bar graph with interval labels in Excel

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Normally, when you create a bar chart in Excel, the category labels will be displayed at the left side of the bars, but sometimes, due to space constraints, you may want to put the category labels above each bar as below screenshot shown. For creating this type of chart, Kutools for Excel’s Interval Label Bar Chart can help you to generate a bar chart with category labels above the bars with only several clicks.

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Create a bar chart with category labels above each bar in Excel


Create a bar chart with category labels above each bar in Excel

For creating this type of chart, please do as follows:

1. Click Kutools > Charts > Difference Comparison > Interval Label Bar Chart, see screenshot:

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2. In the popped out Interval Label Bar Chart dialog box, select the data range of the axis labels and series values separately under the Select Data box. See screenshot:

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Tips: You can also select the data range firstly, and then click Kutools > Charts > Difference Comparison > Interval Label Bar Chart to enable this feature, and the selected data will be filled into the corresponding textboxes automatically.

3. And then, click Ok button, the bar chart with the category labels above is created at once, see screenshot:

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Notes:

1. If you want to change the color of the bar chart, just click to select the bars and fill it with a color you like. See screenshot:

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2. Click the Example button in Interval Label Bar Chart dialog to generate a new workbook with the sample data and sample Interval Label Bar Chart.


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