A column chart is a primary Excel chart type, with data series plotted using vertical columns. Column charts are a good way to show change over time because it's easy to compare column lengths. Like bar charts, column charts can be used to plot both nominal data and ordinal data, and they can be used instead of a pie chart to plot data with a.

I am using Excel 2011 for Mac. I am making clustered column chart that compares the percentages of various categories. I would like each category to have a label that represents the absolute value of that category (So, if 10 cows represent 40% of the total, the cow category is represented graphically as 40%, but is also labeled with a number '10'. I have three data columns: the category data column, the absolute value data column, and the corresponding percentage column. How to make hyper links work in pdf.

I know I can use the 'Data Labels' option to display the data that is already represented in the chart (the percentage of each category). I also know that I can click on each data label and manually change it by typing in the text box, but this seems inefficient. How do I get Excel to use data that's in a third column for the data labels in a more efficient way? Thanks for your help!