Enter the “ Column Column Chart ” in Microsoft Excel, a clever visualization technique that combines category-level data with overall totals to tell a more complete story.

In this post we show you how to create a Bar Graph or Column Chart in Excel. Bar graphs could be both 2-D or 3-D depending on the editor you use.

Once your data is prepared, it’s time to create the chart. Select the date and height columns, then navigate to the Insert tab in Excel. From there, choose a 2D column chart.

Graphs in Excel help break down your data into an easily digestible format. Here’s how to make a graph in Microsoft Excel.

A burndown chart is easy to create in Excel, but setting up the data takes a good understanding of what the chart represents. You’ll need three columns, as shown in Figure A.