This document provides instructions for customizing columns in a chart in Excel. It describes how to insert a chart, delete unnecessary categories, remove gridlines and axes, insert triangle shapes to represent columns, group and copy the triangles, change colors using the Eyedropper tool, and replace the default columns with the custom triangles. The goal is to create a chart with columns represented by triangles rather than bars to provide a non-standard visualization of the data.

1. HOW TO MAKE CUSTOM
COLUMNS FOR CHART

2. Create columns like this.

3. Click on Insert and then Chart

4. Choose Column and click OK.

5. A Chart and Excel spreadsheet will appear.

6. Delete the other Category to have more space.

7. Close the spreadsheet. You can recall it from Edit

8. Remove the Gridlines and Axes.

9. Click on Add Chart Element, then hover over
Gridlines. Click on Primary Major Horizontal.

10. Click on Add Chart Element, then hover over
Axes. Click on Primary Vertical.

11. Now, create the triangle column.

12. Insert a triangle shape.

13. Lengthen the triangle by pulling the middle do

14. Under the Format tab, click Edit Shape.

15. Then click on Edit Points.

16. Move the point that needs adjustment.

17. Create another triangle by just copying.

18. Right click on the shape, then click Copy.

19. Right click again, then click Paste.

20. Flip the second triangle. Under Format tab, click
Rotate, then click Flip Horizontal.

21. Group the two triangles. Click on Select, then
Selection Pane.

22. Pick the two triangles by pressing and holding Control
on the keyboard, then left click on each triangle.

23. Under the Format tab, select Group.

24. Create two more triangles by Copy and then Paste.

25. Change the color
of the triangle by
using Eyedropper.
Please refer
to the slide about
Eyedropper.

26. To replace the
column,
right click, then
Cut or Copy the
triangle.

27. Click on the column to be replaced, the press
Control-v on the keyboard.

28. Do this to all the columns.

29. Now, the chart has custom made columns.

30. THANK YOU FOR VIEWING
THIS TUTORIAL.