{"id":1435,"date":"2015-06-25T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2023-11-30T21:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:52:29","slug":"apply-custom-chart-styles-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/blog\/apply-custom-chart-styles-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply Custom Chart Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel&#8217;s default Charts are bland and ugly but you can certainly spice them up to your liking.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <strong><em>Shape Styles<\/em><\/strong> group in the ribbon menu you can customize your Excel chart the way you or your boss wants.<\/p>\n<p>There are several formatting options including <em>Shape Styles, Shape Fill, Shape Outline, Shape Effects and Text Fill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See below how you can start applying these cool features to your bland chart!<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nyKTh-i8Y58?rel=0 \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MyExcelOnlinecomtutorials?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignmiddle wp-image-111468 size-full\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/1.yt_.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><a class=\"IRPP_minimalist icon-download\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chart-Styles.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"ctaText px-3 text-capitalize\">Download workbook<\/span><span class=\"postTitle px-3\">Chart-Styles.xlsx<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?cl=211017&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=277028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"MATCH Function Intro\"  class=\"alignnone wp-image-1416 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/hmb_logo_01Lg.png\" alt=\"MATCH Function Intro\" width=\"286\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel&#8217;s default Charts are bland and ugly but you can certainly spice them up to your liking. Using the Shape Styles group in the ribbon menu you can customize your Excel chart the way you or your boss wants. There are several formatting options including Shape Styles, Shape Fill, Shape Outline, Shape Effects and Text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cos_headline_score":0,"cos_seo_score":0,"cos_headline_text":"","cos_headline_has_been_analyzed":false,"cos_last_analyzed_headline":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,73],"tags":[94,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myexcelonline.com\/meo-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}