Learn how to save a custom chart template and reuse it
Microsoft Graph (the application Office suite uses for creating charts)
lets you customize your default charts and save the changes.
This means that if you spend some time in creating a nice graph with
appropriate color and format settings, you can save this format and re-use
it, as a template, for your future charts.
The principle is easy: you create a chart, you format it according to
your needs, then you save it as a "template" chart.
When you need to re-apply the specific format you had created to a
chart, you can simply insert the new data, and then apply the specific
template you have saved. As a result, your chart will change its look
while maintaining the data intact.
Allow me to show you how to do this in detail.
Open PowerPoint, choose "Blank presentation" and choose the
"Chart" layout.
Double-click where it says: "Click here to add chart".
A default chart will appear. It will have the standard PowerPoint
format (colors, lines, axes, legend).
You can now perform all the changes you like:
- modify the bar colors
- remove the unnecessary bar borders
- remove the gray background
- use a different color for the gridlines (or remove them completely)
- change the fonts for the axes values
- modify the value axes scale
- format the legend
and so on
